The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are...There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first.

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

Los Angeles is a city looking for a ritual to join its fragments, and The Doors are looking for such a ritual also. A kind of electric wedding. We hide ourselves in the music to reveal ourselves.

Lying on stained, wretched sheets with a bleeding virgin We could plan a murder Or start a religion.

I wonder why people like to believe I'm high all the time. I guess . . . maybe they think someone else can take their trip for them.

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

Man, I'm sick of doubt.