Alan Ginsberg was fabulous. The man is so filled with energy. He's 65 years old and he's just loaded with energy and charm and wit and his mind is constantly racing.

The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a small tree, good God, now you're free.

The ancient Egyptians used to say: if you say a man's name, he is alive. I take this opportunity to say, Jim Morrison.

One of the great gifts of being a human being is that you can get rid of yourself and enter into the oneness of music.

Time is just a moment that we occupy in this brief spin around the planet.

When you're glad to be alive, good ideas come. The reason good ideas don't come today is because we're all bottled up with greed and anger. We're mad.

To deny the darkness of the soul is to be but half a human being. But we had both sides.

Through all of history mankind has ingested psychedelic substances. Those substances exist to put you in touch with spirits beyond yourself, with the creator, with the creative impulse of the planet.

Drugs shouldn't be used for recreation although they can be, but ultimately the point of psychedelics is to put you in touch with the powers of the universe.

The Doors really were a band of potheads.

If there was no black man there would be no Rock'n'Roll. The beat, the rhythms of Africa are what created Rock'n'Roll and Jazz.

People don't always want to be with people. It gets tiring.

The only people in this world I really trust are my fans - even if they do forget you so fast.

If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed.

A public debt is a kind of anchor in the storm; but if the anchor be too heavy for the vessel, she will be sunk by that very weight which was intended for her preservation.

Look at the world. There is no pure competitor to the United States of America.

It's wrong for someone to confiscate your money, give it to someone else, and call that "compassion."

If you happen to have a spare $100 million floating around, then you're my producer.

You can't predict what's gonna happen, you can't predict if people are going to participate, you can't predict if there'll be interference.

Those times when you feel like quitting can be times of great opportunity, for God uses your troubles to help you grow.