
"A friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself.""The only time I really open up is on stage. I feel spiritual up there... I don't really feel I've done a complete job unless we've gotten everybody in the theater on common ground."
"I like ideas about the breaking away or overthrowing the 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 revolt is a way to bring about internal freedom."
"There are things known, and there are things unknown, and in between is
The Doors."
"O great creator of being, grant us one more hour to perform our art and perfect our lives."
"If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel."
"When you make your peace with authority, you become authority."
"I think I was just fed up with the image that had been created around me... and so I put an end to it in one glorious evening."
Jim wanted to change the world and failed. He had been abused by society and abandoned by his fans. He was no longer interested in music and left for Paris to work on his poetry. On July 3rd, 1971, at the age of 27, Jim was found dead at his Paris home by his longtime girlfriend Pamela Courson. There was no autopsy and the exact cause of death was never established.
"When the music's over, turn out the light."