Michael Hogan Quotes

I really floated around in the '60s, because I felt comfortable with nothing.

The 1960s were about releasing ourselves from conventional society and freeing ourselves.

To get the hippie out of certain characters is probably the most difficult thing for me. I was not a hippie by choice but by birth.

I had a confused early hippie phase, which was like a cafeteria tray of sloppy, semi-Marxist thoughts, absorbed second-hand.

Never trust a hippie. That's definitely my motto.

At the time of Woodstock, I was just 13, but I used to see these exotic hippy creatures and I did look on with envy. How could you not? In an ideal world, I would have loved to have been a hippy - but I might have been a bit strait-laced. It was my fantasy.

I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.

Basically, I was a hippie and still am a flower child.

I read the Life magazine articles about free love and free dope in California. At age 20 I drove to Los Angeles.

When people talk about the '60s I never think that was me there. It was me and I was in it, but I was never enamoured with all that. It's supposed to be sex and drugs and rock and roll and I'm not really like that. I've never really seen the Rolling Stones as anything.

I disliked everything about the '60s.

My dad has seen and done a lot. He comes from the hippie era where music and living life to the fullest is more important than stability and playing by the rules.

The hippie era was a wonderful time because we still believed we could make the world a better place.

I'm a 1960s flowerchild who has refused to grow up.

I grew up counterculture. I'm essentially a hippie, and I'm essentially a folkie.

I'm compared to Kerouac, I suppose, because he traveled and rejected middle-class values, but the similarities end there.

There were two things I wanted to be: an actor and a hippie.

I think my father had a lot of anti-establishment in him. He came through the '60s.

There is a secret hippie within me.

My parents were hippies.

The '60s aren't over; they won't be over until the Fat Lady gets high.

I'm a child of the Sixties.

The hippies wanted peace and love. We wanted Ferraris, blondes and switchblades.

I'm not just influenced by the '60s - it's who I am. I grew up with Allen Ginsberg and Che Guevara. I flirted with various forms of communism when it was way out of style. It was this really strange and creative time in music and culture, and it was fabulous.

The Haight is just a place; the '60s was a spirit.