There are images I need to complete my own reality.

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

People are afraid of being more ignorant than their children―especially, apparantly, their daughters.

We're all just wandering around with our fingers crossed, hoping we'll meet someone who will make our lostness a little less lonely.

Humor does not diminish the pain - it makes the space around it get bigger.

God buries our sins in the depths of the sea and then puts up a sign that reads, "No fishing."

Service without reward is punishment.

Writing. Love is writing.

I focus on the dumbness of Hagelin... He played a hell of a game but that's all washed off from dumbness.

In rock & roll heaven, there ARE drum solos, but only the drummers can hear them.

I am proud only of those days that pass in undivided tenderness.

I don't think of myself as making art. I do what I do because I want to, because painting is the best way I've found to get along with myself.