The Doors really were a band of potheads.

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.

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.

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.

Honor, obey?" Gisbourne shouted, grappling with John. "This is what you call being a good wife?"I stopped. "I never said I'd be a good wife, Guy. Just that I'd marry you.

Men do not long continue to think what they have forgotten how to say.

I have people that I'm close to that give me things to read throughout the season, and in particular in the playoffs and the postseason.

He was royalty. So what? Everyone had a flaw.

Science exists, moreover, only as a journey toward troth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey.

Everyone who shoots dance sequences does it in a different way. Everyone who shoots fight sequences does it in a different way.

Our God is righteous enough to judge and kind enough to forgive.

America has never been a pure democracy and majoritarianism has always been as much feared as monarchism.

I don't have moments of weakness. I'm Rik Mayall.

There is no meaningful yes unless the individual could also have said no.