“I am the lizard king. I can do anything.”

"You could say it was an accident that I was ideally suited for the work I am doing. It's the feeling of a bowstring being pulled back for 22 years and suddenly being let go. I am primarily an American, second a Californian, third a Los Angeles resident. I've always been attracted to ideas that were about revolt against authority. I like ideas about breaking away or overthrowing of established order. I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me that the road toward freedom, external revolt, is a way to bring about internal freedom. Rather than starting inside, I start outside, reach the mental through the physical."

"I am a sagittarian, if that has anything to do with it - the Centaur - the Archer - the Hunt, but the main thing is we are The Doors.
We are from the west/The whole thing is like an invitation to the west, The sunset, This is the end, The night, The sea
The world we suggest is a new wild west. A sensuous evil world. Strange and haunting, the path of the sun, you know? Toward the end. At least for our first album. We're all centered around the end of the Zodiac. The Pacific/violence and peace/the way between young and old."

“People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that's bullshit. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they're afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they're wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It's all in how you carry it. That's what matters. Pain is a feeling. Your feelings are a part of you. Your own reality. If you feel ashamed of them, and hide them, you're letting society destroy your reality. You should stand up for your right to feel your pain.”

“That's what real love amounts to- letting a person be what he really is. Most people love you for who you pretend to be. To keep their love, you keep pretending- performing. You get to love your pretence. It's true, we're locked in an image, an act-”

“Love cannot save you from your own fate.”

“This is the strangest life I've ever known.”

“There are things known, and there are things unknown, And in between are the Doors”

“Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.”

“The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on and individual level. It's got to happen inside first. You can take away a man's political freedom and you won't hurt him- unless you take away his freedom to feel. That can destroy him. That kind of freedom can't be granted. Nobody can win it for you.”

“Blake said that the body was the soul's prison unless the five senses are fully developed and open. He considered the senses the 'windows of the soul.' When sex involves all the senses intensely, it can be like a mystical experience.”

“I was stoned. It seemed like a fun thing to do at the time.”

“I believe in a long, prolonged derangement of the senses to attain the unknown. Our pale reasoning hides the infinite from us.”

“How can I set free anyone who doesn't have the guts to stand up alone and declare his own freedom? I think it's a lie – people claim they want to be free – everybody insists that freedom is what they want the most, the most sacred and precious thing a man can possess. But that's bullshit! People are terrified to be set free – they hold on to their chains. They fight anyone who tries to break those chains. It's their security…How can they expect me or anyone else to set them free if they don't really want to be free?”

“Whoever controls the media, controls the mind”

“The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.”

“I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between. I want the freedom to try everything.”

“I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments.”

“I wouldn't mind dying in a plane crash. It'd be a good way to go. I don't want to die in my sleep, or of old age, or OD... I want to feel what it's like. I want to taste it, hear it, smell it. Death is only going to happen to you once; I don't want to miss it.”

"Hatred is a very underestimated emotion.”

“As I look back... over my life... I am struck by post cards... ruined snapshots... faded posters... of a time.. I can't recall”

“There are things known and things unknown and in between are the doors.”

“We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.”

“Being drunk is a good disguise. I drink so I can talk to assholes. This includes me.”

"I like people who shake other people up and make them feel uncomfortable.”

“Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.”

“Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts.”

“Let's just say I was testing the bounds of reality. I was curious to see what would happen. That's all it was: curiosity.”

“The future's uncertain and the end is always near”

“I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos-especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom... Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical.”

“Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through anyone that suits you.”

“Actually I don't remember being born, It must have happened during one of my black outs.”

“Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws.”

“When you make your peace with authority, you become authority.”

“The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. ...You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.”

“You're all a bunch of fuckin' slaves!”

“Those first few songs I wrote, I was taking notes at a fantastic rock concert going on in my head.”

“I like any reaction I can get with my music. Just anything to get people to think. I mean if you can get a whole room full of drunk, stoned people to actually wake up and think, you're doing something.”

“I offer images- I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached- like the Doors, right? But we can only open the doors, we can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free. Maybe primitive people have less bullshit to let go of, to give up. A person has to be willing to give up everything- not just wealth. All the bullshit that he's been taught- all society's brainwashing. You have to let go of all that to get to the other side. Most people aren't willing to do that.”

“The time to hesitate is through.”

"Let's just say I was testing the bounds of reality. I was curious to see what would happen. That's all it was: curiosity"

“Drugs are a bet with your mind.”

“I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences.”

“I like ideas about the breaking away or overthrowing of established order. I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road towards freedom - external freedom is a way to bring about internal freedom.”

“I'm kind of hooked to the game of art and literature; my heroes are artists and writers.”

“I've always liked reptiles. I used to see the universe as a mammoth snake, and I used to see all the people and objects, landscapes, as little pictures in the facets of their scales. I think peristaltic motion is the basic life movement. Swallowing,”

“If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.”

“When play dies it becomes the Game When sex dies it becomes Climax.”

“Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies.”

“O great creator of being grant us one more hour to perform our art & perfect our lives.”

“Where's your will to be weird?”

“I'm a word man. See, there's this theory about the nature of tragedy, that Aristotle didn't mean catharsis for the audience but a purgation of emotions for the actors them selves. The audience is just a witness to the event taking place on stage.”

“I think I was just fed up with the image that had been created around me, which I sometimes consciously, most of the time unconsciously cooperated with. It just got too much for me to really stomach and so I put an end to it one glorious evening.”

“Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence.”

“Think of us as erotic politicians.”

“Music inflames temperament.”

“I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown.”

“Initially, I didn't start out to be a member of a band. I wanted to make films, write plays, books. When I found myself in a band, I wanted to bring some of these ideas into it. We never did much with it, though.”

“You could say it's an accident that I was ideally suited for the work I am doing. It's the feeling of a bow string being pulled back for 22 years and suddenly being let go...”

“Cancel my subscription to the resurection. Send my creditials to the house of detention.”

“A hero is someone who rebels or seems to rebel against the facts of existence and seems to conquer them. Obviously that can only work at moments. It can't be a lasting thing. That's not saying that people shouldn't keep trying to rebel against the facts of existence. Someday, who knows, we might conquer death, disease and war.”

“It's like gambling somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don't know where your going to end up the next day. It could work out good or it could be disastrous. It's like the throw of the dice.”

“Film spectators are quiet vampires.”

“We are from the West. The world we suggest should be of a new wild West, a sensuous, evil world, strange and haunting. The path of the sun.”

“A friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself.”

“Who cares man?" (to Ed Sullivan after he cancelled The Doors' next six preformances because Jim said "higher" on the Ed Sullivan Show.”

“The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death.”

“I'd hate to think I'd stop having anything to do with music, but I think that in the future, I'll tend towards an exclusive film involvement.”

“Without touch we are but hunks of wood.”

“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.”

“I get an instinctive feeling for the film media. I think I'll do pretty well at it.”

“Indians scattered on dawn's highway bleeding Ghosts crowd the young child's fragile eggshell mind”

“Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself-and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to-letting a person be what he really is.”

“Its a funny thing, I noticed that when people are joking theyre usually dead serious, and when theyre dead serious its usually pretty funny. So actually I think that anything that you say means exactly what you say and its opposite.”

“I hope you people are happy, ... because you people just screwed the borough.”

“All our songs are about love, travel and death.”

“No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn.”

“In the womb we are blind cave fish.”

“It is wrong to assume that art needs the spectator in order to be. The film runs on without any eyes. The spectator cannot exist without it. It insures his existence.”

“Films are collections of dead pictures which are given artificial insemination.”

“Adolf Hitler is still alive... I slept with her last night.”

“The voyeur is masturbator, the mirror his badge, the window his prey.”

“The spectator is a dying animal.”

“Is everybody in?
The ceremony is about to begin”

“This needed to be done. It was just a pitiful sight to see the people coming in from New Orleans so dejected with their pets.”

“Cinema is most totalitarian of the arts. All energy and sensation is sucked up into the skull, a cerebral erection, skull bloated with blood. Caligula wished a single neck for all his subjects that he could behead a kingdom with one blow. Cinema is this transfoming agent. The body exists for the sake of the eyes; it becomes a dry stalk to support these two soft insatiable jewels.”

“Cure blindness with a whore's spittle.”

“Film confers a kind of spurious eternity.”

“Equities have enjoyed a seven-week rally and there is a feeling that they may take a short breather and mark time for a while.”

“Now the bulk of the first-quarter corporate earnings are out of the way, the markets will move on the back of the economic data coming out, so we could be set for a choppy weak. Our clients are still suspicious of the rally in equities and prefer to remain short.”

"Traders are focusing on the good news and Intel is the big one today, pushing the Nasdaq futures up almost 0.8 percent,”

“For equities to continue their rise, traders will want to see more good results from the corporate sector. There is little in the way of important economic data until Friday's durable goods number.”

“He just took over in overtime. He willed them to the win. I can't be disappointed with our effort, we are getting better. At the beginning of the season we were losing games by 50 points and now we're are competing with one of the best teams in the state.”

“He was the best player on the court, there's no question about that. We didn't have many answers for him. We tried to deny him the ball all over the court and he got too many good looks at it. He was the difference. It seemed like he just scored the entire game...He's a very talented offensive player. There's not much that we could do with him. Hopefully we'll have better luck next time.”

“I'm always a bit suspicious when lyricists call themselves poets.”

“We were winning, 6-4, early on, then we got blitzed. They decided to take it to another level and we're not capable of going there.”

“It's all relative, but we played well in stretches, which gave me hope for next week.”

"I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences"

"Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors"

"I believe in a long, prolonged derangement of the senses to attain the unknown. Our pale reasoning hides the infinite from us."

"People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend..."

"The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder."

"The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. ...You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask."

"I see myself as a huge fiery comet, a shooting star. Everyone stops, points up and gasps "Oh look at that!" Then- whoosh, and I'm gone...and they'll never see anything like it ever again... and they won't be able to forget me- ever."

"That's what real love amounts to- letting a person be what he really is. Most people love you for who you pretend to be. To keep their love, you keep pretending- performing. You get to love your pretence. It's true, we're locked in an image, an act-"

"If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel."

"I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between. I want the freedom to try everything."