Give me lace and whiskey, Mama's own remedy.

Mistakes are part of the game. It's how well you recover from them, that's the mark of a great player.

Freedom to rock, freedom to talk. Freedom, raise your fist and yell.

Two of the guys that were honorary Vampires - Jim Morrison and Jimi Hendrix - had already died at 27. And they were certainly archangels in our group.

If you get earaches, I'd turn my volume down a notch or two for you. Cause I will do anything for you.

Women on the streets want money when we meet. I take them for a little ride, chop, chop, chop.

When I moved to L. A. with this little wimpy garage band, the first people we met were the Doors. Then we met Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin. All of the people who died of excess were our big brothers and sisters. So I said to myself: How do you become a legend and enjoy it? The answer is to create a character as legendary as those guys and leave that character on the stage.