There's a hierarchy in prison, and I was right at the top.

If more people were stoned there would be less violence in the world.

I want my ashes either with some really good primo or as some fertilizer for plants.

I love to meet my fans, and after every show I usually hang out for a few hours, talking to my fans, signing autographs, and selling T-shirts.

When you hit a groove, it's not you; it's the spirit world. The spirits whisper the ideas in your brain and prod you along. They're the ones that are really happy.

To be in a situation where you have no rights whatsoever is something I wish everybody could experience. People's attitudes would change. It would be a better place.

Something good always happens at 4:20 for me.

The smartest billionaires I know never finished high school. I got my degree and my doctorate on the street and an advanced degree in jail.

Awakening your spiritual side is really what artists do. When you hit a groove, it's not you; it's the spirit world.

Boredom is a disease, too.

Unfortunately, the American justice system is just riddled with lies and inconsistencies.

Jazz isn't dead. It just smells funny.

While natural disasters capture headlines and national attention short-term, the work of recovery and rebuilding is long-term.

Other than my memory being a bit woolly and my knees being a bit creaky, I don't really think there's anything I can't do.

America is simultaneously the most attractive and most repulsive place on the planet. It is most loved and most hated.

There are some people who would never have fallen in love if they had not heard there was such a thing.

You're not just looking for laughs, but you're trying to do the characters first, and then the laughs come afterwards.

I've thought of the last line of some poems for years and tried them out, It wouldn't work because the last line was much too beautiful for the poem.

There is a difference between Senator Obama and Senator McCain. Senator Obama believes that the government ought to be able to take as much as it thinks it needs from anybody.

I do look upon the secretary of education's primary responsibility as the quality of education that - and improving the education that every child in American public schools receives.

Teach him how you will, a pig will never play the flute.