"There's this thing called freebasing. It's not free, it costs you your home. It should be called 'homebasing'."
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"I've spent a fair amount of time down at the worlder. I've been down there and helped arrest people that are smuggling drugs in."
"I can understand the drug thing. So they feel that it's more important to take the drugs than to do a good show for the people."
"I was such a heavy drinker I was going to die at age 37. Not to mention the drugs. I'm glad to be sober, I haven't missed a thing. A lot of people never get the chance to come back."
"Chávez inadvertently made the US drug war tactics look good. Quite a feat, given the disaster which is the drug war. After expelling the DEA (not necessarily a bad thing, given its record in Colombia and elsewhere), he failed to devise a credible strategy for Venezuela."
"When I first became famous in the United Kingdom it was helpful because it meant there wasn't a spite of 'this bloke's a drug addict,' 'this bloke f**ks all these women' because I was just making jokes about all those things already, so it made me some kind of incorruptible indefatigable, indestructible force."
"I'm a recovering drug addict, so it's not a subject that I take lightly, but I do agree that the criminalization of narcotics is the deliberate inhibition of human consciousness."
"If you're a drug addict, then you've always got drugs, so you're a criminal. So you're gonna get into problems."
"The way I've been with drink and drugs suggests I have a tendency to get addicted to things."
"If you're a drug addict, often you're stealing - I've gotten done for shoplifting a few times."
"If you talk about the prison-industrial complex, I've fought against the prison-industrial complex when I called for a repeal of the Rockefeller drug laws. The biggest impediment to get the laws changed was the lobbyists. Whether you're talking about healthcare, jobs going overseas, or tax reform, you're always coming up against lobbyists."
"I don't ask myself, "Well, does God exist or does God not exist?" I choose to believe that God exists, and therefore I can say, "God, I can't do this by myself. Help me not to take a drink today. Help me not to take a drug today." And that works fine for me."
"As far as drug abuse and all that - listen, this is Hollywood. I don't know how I was able to avoid it, but I'm lucky that I did."
"It is vital that we raise awareness of the risks faced by drug misusers."
"Drugs are fine for you alone at home, but when it comes to being a family, which a band is, it just messes everything up."
"He gets his courage from the can, it makes him feel like a man."
"A bitter drug oft brings relief."
"They don't consider nicotine as a drug. Why don't they put it together with all the other drugs?"
"How can we speak about "drugs"? It is like speaking about the human race - each person is different, each drug is different!"
"It's sweeping through our society faster than crack. [Except] with crack you could say, 'These people over here are doing it, adn these people aren't.' You can't do that with Ecstacy now. Everyone's doing it."