The Doors really were a band of potheads.

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.

When you're glad to be alive, good ideas come. The reason good ideas don't come today is because we're all bottled up with greed and anger. We're mad.

Rock 'n' roll is like a circus today.

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.

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

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.