Maybe primitive people have less bullshit to let go of, to give up. A person has to be willing to give up everything—not just wealth. All the bullshit he's been taught—all society's brainwashing. You have to let go of all that to get to the other side. Most people aren't willing to do that.

No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn.

The time to hesitate is through.

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.

Most people love you for who you pretend to be.

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

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