Drugs shouldn't be used for recreation although they can be, but ultimately the point of psychedelics is to put you in touch with the powers of the universe.

Rock 'n' roll is like a circus today.

The Doors really were a band of potheads.

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

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

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.