“I will say that I really feel sorry for all the true hippies that have to deal with me in the press as their poster child. I’m certainly not a good example of what the pure American hippie is. I find it quite hilarious every time that I see something as lame as Sassy’s article about ‘River Phoenix and His Little Hippie Band’. All that sort of stuff to me is like, ‘Please, don’t insult the hippie families of America by using us as their poster children’. It’s just ridiculous. It underrates true hippies. It’s a way of life, not an appearance.”
