How can I set free anyone who doesn’t have the guts to stand up alone and declare his own freedom?
Windows work two ways, mirrors one way. You never walk through mirrors or swim through windows.
I think, in these days, especially in the States, you have to be a politician or an assassin or something, to really be a superstar.
Choose the day and choose the sign of your day! The day’s divinity! First thing you see!!
The spectator is a dying animal.
I’ve always thought comparisons were useless and ugly. It is a short cut to thinking.
We hide ourselves in our music to reveal ourselves.
That’s what real love amounts to – letting a person be what he really is.
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.
Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical.
Resident mockery, give us an hour for magic.
The best songs just come unasked for. You don’t have to think about them. Summer is a good time for songs.
Is everybody in? Is everybody in? Is everybody in? The ceremony is about to begin.
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.
All games contain the idea of death.
Man, I’m sick of doubt.
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.
Lying on stained, wretched sheets with a bleeding virgin We could plan a murder Or start a religion.
There may be a time when we’ll attend Weather Theatres to recall the sensation of rain.
People are strange when you’re a stranger.