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

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

" I'm a hybrid. "

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

" 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.' "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" Music has always been a big part of Cheech & Chong's career, so it's just natural. You know, I was a musician before I met Cheech and had a record with Motown, and so I've got the cred. "

" I'm as clean as a whistle. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" Everything that happens to me is very cosmic. "

" 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. "

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

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