Quotes from John Densmore

I really wanted to be in Love - they were making it. But I was in the demon Doors.

Everyone is so desperate to get attention for their project, they will do almost anything, and the corporate world has always encouraged this.

The '50s were so lame they produced the '60s!

Legislating morality doesn't work (see: Prohibition). It produced the Mafia.

I'm happy with how 'Feast Of Friends' finally turned out. It's been bootlegged so much, and of course, the quality was always crappy with those things.

I do think if we had a draft again, the United States would embark on fewer wars.

When I was in my 20s I went through my testosterone phase and had a Mercedes to show that I'm rich, and they used to call me 'Jaguar John.' I'm older now, and I'm concerned about the environment and... appreciate a car that doesn't pollute.

Why is there such passion for any sort of gossipy, provocative sensual stuff? It sells!

You hear a Willie Nelson solo, he doesn't play real fast, but it's so melodic and beautiful. It's kind of, to be human is to have space and not show all your stuff all the time.

The Doors are etched on my forehead and always will be.

The Stones without Mick. The Police without Sting. The Doors without Jim. It doesn't work.

I remember thinking: 'Why is Jim's face so big?' on the cover of our first album, 'The Doors.' Probably because it wouldn't have sold a lot of copies if it were my face!

There were some hardcore fans who thought I was ruining the band they loved. And now there's this document, 'The Doors Unhinged,' which, hopefully, they'll take away that I was trying to preserve the band they love and its legacy.

The Doors are Ray, Robby, Jim and John.

It's your inner life that's the most important.

I like to drum for various theatrical things.

We drummers all know that our mother's heartbeat was the first instrument we heard. As a race, we've all been trying to get back to that womb. That's why rhythm makes us move... dance.

Some kids went to the movies for escape. We found it with jazz. This is where we got religion. It was a kind of raw spiritual anarchy.

At the risk of sounding grandiose, I will say that, to me, rock 'n' roll is sacred.

When I do a press roll, I use the traditional grip. Sometimes I flip it around; for a louder crack on the two and four, I use the new grip.

I sometimes joke that I'm half Jewish, because I was raised Catholic... and we share 'the guilt.'

The one constant thread through my life so far is that I have been constantly fed and nourished by music.

We knew we were tight and good, but we didn't know we were going to be the band to help each generation cut its umbilical cord.

I stumbled onto Peggy Feury in the '80s. I recognized her brilliance immediately; it took her awhile to recognize mine.