Change has to come for life to struggle forward.
I got to be Jim Morrison a lot longer than he did.
We buy books because we believe we're buying the time to read them.
All I can say is what I've always said: If you break your leg, stop thinking about dancing and start decorating the cast.
There's nothing romantic, nothing grand, nothing heroic, nothing brave, nothing like that about drinking. It's a real coward's death.
To me, the message of my songs, of all songs, is "enjoy life. " My message as a person who evidently doens't have much more planned is the same. It's the only message I ever thought art had any business having.
You had to go to a different part of town from where I was to get Muddy Waters singles. I had him on singles.
I didn't try to be something I wasn't.
Inner experience. . . is not easily accessible and, viewed from the outside by intelligence, it would even be necessary to see in it a sum of distinct operations, some intellectual, others aesthetic, yet others moral. . . . It is only from within, lived to the point of terror, that it appears to unify that which discursive thought must separate.
Life is not to live merely, but to live well.
Often I say to myself "Really, what are we doing on this planet?" We are passing the message as well as we can, communicating our fears, our hopes. . . Day in day out, week after week and year after year, people kill each other.