Interview with actor, artist, and photographer Dennis Hopper conducted by Molly Saltman for the "Art and Artists" radio program which was broadcast on KPAL radio station in Palm Springs, California.

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Hopper, who died in 2010, became famous for the 1969 hippie biker road trip movie, Easy Rider. "There was a lot of smoking grass on that picture. ... I didn’t do it. But I drank," he said in 1990.

Dennis Hopper didn’t just play a counterculture rebel in the iconic 1960s flick Easy Rider—he lived a shockingly rough and risky life.