There are things known and things unknown and in between are The Doors.

When you make your peace with authority, you become authority.

My great joy is to give form to reality. Music is a great release, a great enjoyment to me. Eventually I'd like to write something of great importance. That's my ambition - to write something worthwhile.

What have they done to the earth? What have they done to our fair sister? Ravaged and plundered and ripped her and bit her Stuck her with knives in the side of the dawn And tied her with fences and dragged her down

The gate is straight, Deep and wide, Break on through to the other side...

I like any reaction I can get with my music. Just anything to get people to think. I mean if you can get a whole room full of drunk, stoned people to actually wake up and think, you're doing something.

I've noticed that when people are joking they're usually dead serious, and when they're serious, they're usually pretty funny.