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.

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.

I thought we were gonna open up the world of poetry and music to all kinds of things, and yet, I can't really think of anyone who's done anything like it since.

If I wasn't a devil myself I'd give Me up to the Devil this very minute.

There's something so showy about desperation, it takes hard wits to see it's a grandiose form of funk.

Trade barriers constitute isolation; isolation gives rise to hatred, hatred to war, and war to invasion.

I understood. I have understood. I do understand.

I've surrendered that to God. I'm not in a battle with what everybody else thinks anymore.

I've always thought that the act of playing the guitar was the act of trying to make a point of playing the guitar.

Pain is the fuel of passion - it energizes us with an intensity to change that we don't normally possess.

Evil contained is not evil destroyed.

There can be only one Captain to a ship.

So be my passing! My task accomplished and the long day done, My wages taken, and in my heart Some late lark singing, Let me be gathered in the quiet west, The sundown splendid and serene, Death.