The key to The Doors is the culture behind the myth.

I'm a street walking cheetah with a heart full of napalm.

Music is life, and life is not a business.

I stare at myself in the mirror and I think, 'Wow, I'm really great-looking.'... I think I'm the greatest, anyway.

They say that death kills you, But death doesn't kill you. Boredom and indifference kill you.

And it's a - it's a term that's based on contempt; it's a term that's based on fashion, style, elitism, satanism, and, everything that's rotten about rock 'n' roll.

It's more fun to look at an old picture of me than it is to look at a new one sometimes. Although, I still wear a dress pretty well.

What did Christ really do? He hung out with hard-drinking fishermen.

Nihilism is best done by professionals.

I'm glad I am crazy, it keeps me trying. I despise trendies, I know they're lying.

Bowie's a real man, and I'm a real woman - just like Catherine Deneuve.

Again and again I asked for permission. May I? Here? And here? Is this too much? Too little? Can you hear me? This is my heart.

I thought I knew not only her habits but also her limits. This display of ferocity, of savage courage, made me realize that I was wrong. All my life I had known only a part of her.

To be born in India is to arrive into the world swimming in religion.

Gods have bloody hands.

The people who know the sort of personality or persona that I give across more on Twitter just realize that I'm just being messy and I'm just snatching wigs.

I make money using my brains and lose money listening to my heart. But in the long run my books balance pretty well.

Primitives of our own species, even today are historically shallow in their knowledge of the past. Only the poet who writes speaks his message across the millennia to other hearts.

We should not play like Australia or India or England - we should play like Sri Lanka.

I also think there's something about dance, music and the arts that transcends all other types of communication and expression.

In fact perhaps the only law in biology is that all flesh is mortal and all species become extinct eventually.