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

The Doors were successful. It was Jim Morrison as the centre and the figure and the spokesman, the figurehead, but we were all into the same thing. That's why we were a band.

I need three million dollars to make a low-budget, intellectual, artistic, exciting, erotic movie with a great soundtrack.

Rock 'n' roll is like a circus today.

To deny the darkness of the soul is to be but half a human being. But we had both sides.

Alan Ginsberg was fabulous. The man is so filled with energy. He's 65 years old and he's just loaded with energy and charm and wit and his mind is constantly racing.