I need three million dollars to make a low-budget, intellectual, artistic, exciting, erotic movie with a great soundtrack.

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.

As he stared into the ocean, he must have tossed a lifetime of apologies into its silence. Maybe he thought the tide would wash his troubles away.

Nature is a machine. The family is a machine. The life cycle is like a machine.

There are doubtless certain unworldly people who are indifferent to money. I myself have never met one.

The success of my comedy has been not being afraid to touch on subject matters or issues that everyone else is politically scared of.

Envy is more incapable of reconciliation than hatred is.

At an early age I found the world a very natural place to be. I was always in a meditative consciousness as a child, which children are.

Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.

Let your cry be for free souls rather than for freedom. Moral liberty is the only important liberty.

Consumers do not view communications in isolation. They bring with them all their past brand experiences and associations.

I love the community and the entertainment too much. I'm used to it - it's what I saw first.