Time is just a moment that we occupy in this brief spin around the planet.

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.

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.

Our family was nearly torn apart on several occasions by arguments started when the refrigerator door was open for what my father deemed as ‘too long.

So go love someone that wants to love you back. Whoever that lad is will be one lucky person.

Lies are like muscles: it takes practice to make them strong.

You don't know how good you are until you actually get out on a bike and get riding.

I too had thoughts once of being an intellectual, but I found it too difficult.

Nothing about it interested me. Or about anything else, except making up stories. If literacy weren't so nearly universal, God knows what I'd be. A drain on the State, I shouldn't wonder.

I still think that there's some kind of psychological investment in black athletes carrying the flag for "us" at times. So, sports [remains a] metaphor for struggle and triumph and flair.

More people are going out to comedy shows than they were before.

Self Realization is the first encounter with reality.

When I was a kid, I had this idea that I would have a beard when I got older. I thought it'd be nice to rub my chin.