I spent most of the eighties, most of my life, riding around in somebody else's car, in possession of, or ingested of, something illegal, on my way from something illegal to something illegal with many illegal things happening all around me

What did Christ really do? He hung out with hard-drinking fishermen.

The key to The Doors is the culture behind the myth.

If I started thinking too much about how influential I've been, then I'd be more of a turd than I already am.

Cigarettes and coffee, man, that's a combination.

I thought, "Wow, it sounds really stoned anyway." It sounded good to me. I found out that there was a lot in there. What all this comes down to is I was just trying to get in touch with myself. And I met some interesting people in New York who weren't in show business. I even got to know my dentist.

A lot of young musicians get the money at the wrong time. They get it for something they don’t feel great about, and it’ll make you feel so bad it’ll destroy you and kill you.