I think I'm a very poor piano player.

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.

You will not be able to find outer calmness if your heart is carrying a storm.

Being a human is a great power. One can obtain everything. However, it is the greed that harasses him.

To follow Christ requires a downward career track that does not depend on dollars or status. Instead, what matters is Christ.

That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. They forget.

They are coming to teach us good manners!" I replied in English. "But they won't succeed, because we are gods.

He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself for every man has need to be forgiven.

No, I think marriage is a great thing.

Each achieves one or both of two objectives — making liberals feel good about themselves and being good to liberal candidates.

I don't want people to think they have to like me because I'm on TV every other minute.

Wretched are those who are vindictive and spiteful.