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"I like stirring things up. I'm on the side of the kids more than I am on the adults. And occasionally I find some adults that have that same mischievous streak, so I don't get in too much trouble."

"Yes, there was nothing else to do to get you high. I mean, there was, but white kids didn't hear about it."

"I feel responsible; I feel I've got to do something that will leave the kids a place where they can live healthy, safe, productive, creative and prosperous lives."

"Susan, an only child who never had any roots, and I, a lone wolf who got married 20 years to late, were adopted by the kids as much as they were by us."

"I promised myself that I'd never actually admit to listening to New Kids on the Block."

"If you tell kids they can't have something, that's what they want."

"I'm proud of my kids, they are doing what they want to do."
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"Yes, there was nothing else to do to get you high. I mean, there was, but white kids didn't hear about it."


"Well, I went to school with Jan and Dean, Ryan O'Neal, some of the Beach Boys we all use to party together."


"There's a big difference between somebody who does acid on weekends and somebody who takes downers every day."


"Acid wasn't getting a whole lot of bad press at the time, and as I saw the whole bad-press thing happen, I became aware that the government had done a whole lie on all the other benign drugs as well. It became clear to me that the government wanted no real drug education."


"Marijuana. Boy, I thought that was just terrible. How could this great man do this to his life?"


"My mom was a Democrat and I was scared to death that she was gonna blow it. First I was going to hell with Monroe, and now to Republican hell with Nixon."


"Then l learned to play guitar and l started writing songs and my mother formed for me a publishing business, so we started publishing and managing artists."


"It was the worst period of my life. I had all this gigantic acceptance as a kid, and all of a sudden there was this monumental rejection."
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