A biography for Tommy Chonghasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“The Shades never recorded anything, Little Daddy and the Bachelors recorded a couple of records, ya.”
“Well, I started out as a musician, so when I was about 10 years old, I was already in a band.”
“Awakening your spiritual side is really what artists do. When you hit a groove, it's not you; it's the spirit world.”
“I've been a good boy, I've never really been convicted of serious crime.”
“I was more of a weightlifter.”
“'That '70s Show' was one of the highlights of my life. I didn't expect to be on it as long as I was.”
“No. Maceo played sax, didn't he, well they used to sit in.”
“The thing is about Cheech & Chong, we've brought more families together than Dr. Phil.”
“Every time I get tested, I ask questions about it, and I watch how they do it.”
“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.'”
“Maybe once in a while, you know, after a hard day of shooting or something like that, I'd kick back.”
“I've met a lot of jazz musicians in my day, and they're all funny.”
“A lot of prophets have gone to jail.”
“You know, I left the country when Reagan got in; I went to France.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I've always been into improvisation.”
“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.”
“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.”