You have to be open to the energy. If you can open your heart to the energy, that great love energy, of this entire universe, good things will happen to you. BUT, you've gotta believe. You've gotta believe in the goodness.

The Doors movie is a pack of lies. It did not make money. You want to make money in America? Tell the truth.

I think I'm a very poor piano player.

Time is just a moment that we occupy in this brief spin around the planet.

If there was no black man there would be no Rock'n'Roll. The beat, the rhythms of Africa are what created Rock'n'Roll and Jazz.

One of the great gifts of being a human being is that you can get rid of yourself and enter into the oneness of music.

The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a small tree, good God, now you're free.