Richard Pryor Is, In My Mind, The

I Brought Something Back From Those Experiences [with Drugs] Which Made Me Softer, Open To Other Ideas. And I've Learned From Listening To Other People Talk About Their Experiences, From Listening To Bill Hicks Or Reading Terrence Mckenna Or Aldous Huxley And Timothy Leary. But There's Always Some Dumb Cop Out There Who Says "we Don't Need Another Legal Drug And There's Psychological Addiction And Blah Blah Blah."

Reality Really Is Theater. There's No Other Way To Describe It. It's All So Nonsensical, Ridiculous And Chaotic.

I Really Never Thought People Would Think That I Was Funny, I Thought (my Friends) Thought I Was Funny Because I Was Their Friend, But Other People Would Just Think I Was An Asshole. I Was At Least Partly Right.

Stand-up Is Still My Favorite, But The Podcast Is A Close Second. It's So Fun, And It's Given Me The Oppor-tunity To Have Three-hour Conversations With People I Wouldn't Have Otherwise Been Able To Talk To. When I Talked To Maynard Keenan From Tool, I Almost Couldn't Believe It Was Happening.

Faith Itself Is A Horrible Mechanism That Stunts The Growth Of Ideas. It Also Stunts The Act Of Questioning, And It Does This By Pushing The Idea That You Have To Have Faith - And That Nothing Has To Be Proven.