I thought we were gonna open up the world of poetry and music to all kinds of things, and yet, I can't really think of anyone who's done anything like it since.

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.

There’s beggary in the love that can be reckoned. (Anthony & Cleopatra - Shakespeare.

God hears no more than the heart speaks and if the heart be dumb God will certainly be dumb.

It is morally obscene to regard wealth as an anonymous, tribal product and to talk about 'redistributing' it.

Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few.

Not all books are for all people. We read for different reasons.

I feel differently immediately when I start to put weight on. I don't like that sluggish, blunted disposition that I have when that happens.

Too much of something is never good.

Ever wonder where you'd end up if you took your dog for a walk and never once pulled back on the leash?

Half the people who snuff people, that's what they want: recognition. Get their picture in the paper.

O, the difference of man and man! To thee a woman's services are due.