When I first read about Jim Morrison I couldn’t help but feel sad that such a talented singer had only spent a few years on this earth. I am sure that when Jim Morrison said these words, "The future's uncertain and the end is always near" he had no idea how short his life was going to be!

Jim Morrison or James Douglas Morrison was born in Melbourne, Florida on December 8, 1943. Jim Morrison was a very creative individual who tried his hands at many things like songwriting, writing, film direction, as well as poetry but, today he is best known as the lyricist, song writer and singer of the "The Doors." Here are a few quotes by him.

Jim Morrison Quotes

"Film spectators are quiet vampires."

"I am the lizard king. I can do anything."

"Drugs are a bet with your mind."

"This is the strangest life I've ever known."

"The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death."

"Where's your will to be weird""

"Whoever controls the media, controls the mind."

"Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts."

"Love cannot save you from your own fate."

"Music inflames temperament."

"A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself."

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

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

"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."

"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."

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

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

"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."

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

"I'm interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that appears to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom."

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

"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."

"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."

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

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

"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 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."

"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."

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

"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."