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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Life, especially in America, is ruled by corporations. "

" You look at Cheney, Rumsfeld, Karl Rove, and Bush - if you saw them on Halloween, they wouldn't need a costume. You'd give them a treat and compliment them on what great-looking demons they were. They are demons. There's no doubt about it. "

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

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

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

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" I'm a hybrid. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" The trouble when you're doing something illegal is that you know what you're doing. You're lying to your parents, you're lying to your kids. The only person you can't lie to is yourself. "

" I've always been into improvisation. "

" 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. "

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

" Everything that happens to me is very cosmic. "

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

" I'm as clean as a whistle. "

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