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Musicians can travel all over the world and have an audience, because there's no language barrier.
I do believe that [Bill] Clinton never inhaled ...because when I met him, he had no idea who I was.
'That '70s Show' was one of the highlights of my life. I didn't expect to be on it as long as I was.
Maybe once in a while, you know, after a hard day of shooting or something like that, I'd kick back.
The Shades never recorded anything, Little Daddy and the Bachelors recorded a couple of records, ya.
Any excuse to live in New York and do art. Has to be one of the most rewarding experiences in the world.
Well I don't know, I might have lost my citizenship, I don't think you can lose your citizenship though.
I know, because I tried all sorts of ways of being in character, and the best way is to be totally straight.
Activism, to me, I don't know if it really works. It may work for somebody else, but it does not work for me.
So (legalizing marijuana) means a lot more to me than just being able to smoke a joint without being arrested.
Awakening your spiritual side is really what artists do. When you hit a groove, it's not you; it's the spirit world.
Cheech and I used to call ourselves musicians; we never called ourselves comedians. We were musicians that were funny.
I really love what [Donald] Trump is doing. He is doing a great job of exposing the republicans for what they really are.
When you smoke marijuana, you are in the moment and you are happy. You forget about any worries of the past or the future.
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.
Cheech [Marine] on the other hand, met [Barack] Obama and he knew right away who Cheech was. So that should tell you something.
I look on everything with a very optimistic eye. Because I'm a body builder by trade, you know, that was my intent all my life.
We have receptors in our brain as you well know and when you ingest marijuana, I believe that it essentially gives you a reboot.
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.
My incarceration was actually a positive thing from the beginning. I needed a gimmick to get my act going again, it gave me material.
Now the [smartphone] has freed everybody, and so everybody gets better. No matter what you say, people will check you out on their phone.
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.
More than anything, the weed really helped with my mental state, because marijuana works on the brain. And if anything, it soothes the brain.
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.
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.
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.
Marijuana at the time we were making movies [with Cheech Marine] was not that readily available and I do prefer to be coherent when I am working.
I'm dancing tango, and I'm playing golf, and I'm quite active, you know, and for my age and everything, and what I've gone through, I'm very happy.
We have a team in Nevada that is looking for licensed cultivators to grow Chong's Choice. Hopefully recreational passes this year and we can go full force.
You got a bag of pot, there's someone who wants to buy it from you. So in a weird way, marijuana has [become] and is becoming the new currency of the world.
It's like love making, the foreplay is the biggest part, the same thing as comedy. If you can frame your show in such a way that the funny jokes become funnier.
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.
[Donald Trump] is a true republican: he is hypocritical and two-faced, he's a liar, a cheat, and a thief and the more he speaks, the more his real character shows.
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.
As soon as I discovered weightlifting, all I wanted to do - my plan in life - was to work out, lay on the beach, and get high... smoke dope. And that's really what I'm doing.
Look at all the drug busts all over the country. There must be an audience there somewhere. My feeling is that if we're losing the war on drugs, let's do a movie for the enemy.
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.'
There's the exciting part about comedy - if you catch an act just before they go mainstream, that's the best. After they hit the mainstream, everything gets watered down a little bit.
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.
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've always known, all my life, that I was going to be something special. I never knew what it was, but I always had that feeling. I think my mother installed it when I was a little guy.
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.
Marijuana has become like currency. Anytime you grow a crop like marijuana, or wheat, or corn, or anything that people consume on a daily basis, you're [getting] into a huge economic area.
You know that old joke about potheads having bad memories? Well, the bad memories are like pain, discomfort, and fear. So you lose all that, and the body reacts by healing faster and stronger.
Just the thought of anything Hawaiian gets me high! I appreciate the good cannabis that people have spent years perfecting but I also enjoy the cheap stuff. I guess you could say I like it all.
When Mexicans sneak across the border, they're more apt to carry a bag of pot then they are a fistful of money. Because the pot can be exchanged for money, anywhere in America. Anywhere in the world!
I've always believed in the concept of retirement. I retired for the first time at age 18 ... from school. To me, retirement means doing what you want to do without worrying about getting paid for it.
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.
There is an intelligence factor that works with the spoken word. With words, you have to understand meaning and nuances and things like that. You have to be able to relate...but with music it's just music.
Our tour is winding down and I was just thinking about what I want to do. I like growing so I think I might start growing again. As a medical marijuana patient, under California law I am licensed to grow 12 plants.