The Doors were successful. It was Jim Morrison as the centre and the figure and the spokesman, the figurehead, but we were all into the same thing. That's why we were a band.

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.

If you just set out to be liked you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time and you would achieve nothing.

When I've got nothing better to do, I look down the league table to see how Everton are getting along.

I raised my prices since there wasn't any competition it was just the smart thing to do. Why would I keep my prices up if their wasn't anyone to beat?

All love shifts and changes.

When I started to play consistently and produce consistently, that's when I knew that I could compete and do well in the big leagues.

Stop thinking, and end your problems. What difference between yes and no? What difference between success and failure? Must you value what others value, avoid what others avoid? How ridiculous!

Retain a calm heart, sit like a turtle, walk swiftly like a pigeon, and sleep like a dog

Research tells us that fourteen out of any ten individuals like chocolate.

Who, noteless as the race from which he sprung, Saved others' names, but left his own unsung.

I will kill thee a hundred and fifty ways.