No one thought up being. He who thinks he has, step forward.

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.

There are things known and things unknown and in between are The Doors.

Time to live, time to lie, time to laugh, and time to die. Take it easy baby. Take it as it comes.

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend.

Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.

It may have been in pieces, but I gave you the best of me.

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.

Give me songs to sing and emerald dreams to dream and I'll give you love unfolding.

Nobody would stay interested in me if I was normal

Cooler heads prevail while things spin completely out of control.

If you are proud for bad reasons, shame waits around the corner

The sharpest memory of our old-fashioned Christmas eve is my mother's hand making sure I was settled in bed.

If you want anything to work, Sunday, you're going to have to believe it

Reckless haste makes poor speed.

The power of music is still with me, every day. It's one of the most inspiring things available in the world.

When I was a kid I drew like Michelangelo. It took me years to learn to draw like a kid.

Neither of my parents has been very sensitive about my writing.

A lot of vices that I've had over the years were always to make up for some sort of character deficiency, one of them being shyness.

The history of art is a sequence of successful transgressions.