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.

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.

Forgive other people before you ask for forgiveness… As you forgive, you will be forgiven.

Enjoy every blessing you can get from ever setback and quickly move on. Don't dwell too much on a setback. Don't miss out other blessings ahead...

The child was diseased at birth - stricken with an hereditary ill that only the most vital men are able to shake off. I mean poverty - the most deadly and prevalent of all diseases.

Do not rest, believer, until you have full assurance of your interest in Jesus.

It's my job to manage my heart so that I can respond to you in love and cast out fear in our relationship.

Peanut butter - the pâté of childhood.

Goods produced under conditions which do not meet a rudimentary standard to decency should be regarded as contraband and not allowed to pollute the channels of international commerce.

Good for Matt Lauer. I don't know why everyone is so critical because they thought that he was just gonna attack and bash [Donald] Trump and give Hillary [Clinton] a pass.

You pay for good days by then having bad days. You pay for joy with pain.

The Bible account of the creation of Eve is a preposterous fable.