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" A lot of prophets have gone to jail. "

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" One night all the James Brown band was playing on stage and I look in the back and I could see Mick Jagger and Keith Richards trying to get in the club and they couldn't get in cause it was to crowded. "

" I used to joke for years that I was a black man. I adopted the black culture, the black race. I married a black woman, and I had black kids. I always considered myself a 'brother.' "

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

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

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

" We won a contest at the teen fair in Vancouver and the first prize was a recording contract and we recorded at a radio station on the stairway, and we did a record and it got put out. "

" I'm as clean as a whistle. "

" Religion is run by thought police. 'Obey. Listen. This is what you do. Don't ask questions. Go die for your country.' The spirituality says, 'Okay, you can die for your country, but know what you're doing while you're doing it.' "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" People try to put ownership on things: 'That's mine, that's my joke.' No such thing. Like if you tripped or stumbled and people go, 'Oh, that's Charlie Chaplin.' You know what I mean? You can't own a joke. You can be the guy that tells it the best, but you can't own a joke. Nowhere can you own a laugh. "

" I've always been into improvisation. "

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

" I was more of a weightlifter. "

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

" Everything that happens to me is very cosmic. "

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