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Comedy is the ultimate truth. Jazz is hitting the notes that that no one else would hit, and comedy is saying words that no one else would say.

Marijuana is a proven medicine.

I'd rather have my kid smoking pot than drinking.

Activism, to me, I don't know if it really works. It may work for somebody else, but it does not work for me.

I'm as clean as a whistle.

The funny thing is, Dennis Miller got me back into comedy.

The Shades never recorded anything, Little Daddy and the Bachelors recorded a couple of records, ya.

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

I know, because I tried all sorts of ways of being in character, and the best way is to be totally straight.

The thing is about Cheech & Chong, we've brought more families together than Dr. Phil.

Cigarettes, I won't do cigarettes, nicotine will kill ya.

I'm just glad I can make a difference in someone's life.

Maybe once in a while, you know, after a hard day of shooting or something like that, I'd kick back.

So (legalizing marijuana) means a lot more to me than just being able to smoke a joint without being arrested.

Well I don't know, I might have lost my citizenship, I don't think you can lose your citizenship though.

Musicians can travel all over the world and have an audience, because there's no language barrier.

Any excuse to live in New York and do art. Has to be one of the most rewarding experiences in the world.

Because the pot takes the edge off the adrenaline, and it also clears your mind of it, and then you can see things a lot clearer.

I've always been into improvisation.

But you can't exercise and be high. It's impossible.

You know, I left the country when Reagan got in; I went to France.

What made me a comedian was that I wasn't really a songwriter, I was more of a poet.

I converted a family-owned strip club into an improvisational acting theater.

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

'That '70s Show' was one of the highlights of my life. I didn't expect to be on it as long as I was.

Every time I get tested, I ask questions about it, and I watch how they do it.

Well, I had an after hours club in Vancouver and when any of the Motown acts would call.

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

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.

Jail was probably the most exciting thing that's ever happened to me.

Once you're a felon you're a target.

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

Cheech and I used to call ourselves musicians; we never called ourselves comedians. We were musicians that were funny.

When they put me in jail, that's when they turned me into an activist. Up until the time I went to jail, I was just a comedian.

A lot of prophets have gone to jail.

They just wanted to show the entertainment world that we're vulnerable.

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

Life, especially in America, is ruled by corporations.

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.

Boredom is a disease, too.

Well, I started out as a musician, so when I was about 10 years old, I was already in a band.

You can't become a dictator through checks and balances.

I was more of a weightlifter.

I've met a lot of jazz musicians in my day, and they're all funny.

No. Maceo played sax, didn't he, well they used to sit in.

The way jazz works is that we take a theme, and then we write using the same structure, same chord changes, and then we can do different tunes.

Everything that happens to me is very cosmic.

My incarceration was actually a positive thing from the beginning. I needed a gimmick to get my act going again, it gave me material.

The GRAMMY was a huge deal. It's the height of any musical career.

If I don't get paid I'm going to take a whole lot of Marshall amps home with me on the plane.

I know the musical world as well as I know the comedy world.

I've been a good boy, I've never really been convicted of serious crime.

I never did smoke that much pot; never was a big pothead.