You want a showman, go see rock 'n' roll bands today. You want to have a shamanistic experience, get psychedelic, then you watch The Doors.

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.

The smaller the item of gratitude, the purer is the connection to our heart.

I don't care what happens in 100 years. I won't be around.

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem and thine own soul shall be refreshed.

I'm a cheesy over-the-top megalomaniac with a deep voice and the most amazing pecs.

Being hove to in a long gale is the most boring way of being terrified I know.

Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment.

I'm drawn to the psychology of really interesting, flawed people.

Your voice dries up if you don't use it.

No one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone

Libraries: Here is where people, one frequently finds, lower their voices, and raise their minds.