"Nature always resists the artist at the beginning."

-- Irving Stone

“The people I really most admire are Robert Kennedy and Franklin Roosevelt. If you know someone, it is very hard to revere them.”
“It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.”
“I can't wait to be a mom, but I can wait.”
“We cannot fight communism all over the world, and I think we should have learned that lesson by now.”
“We have good reason to believe that memories of early childhood do not persist in consciousness because of the absence or fragmentary character of language covering this period. Words serve as fixatives for mental images. . . . Even at the end of the second year of life when word tags exist for a number of objects in the child's life, these words are discrete and do not yet bind together the parts of an experience or organize them in a way that can produce a coherent memory.”
“The true life is not reducible to words spoken or written, not by anyone, ever.”
“Policy makers still think that if we just hand out more money the world's problems will be solved.”
“I've been very blessed to make a living in stuff I love and am totally passionate about, music and writing. So I'm eager to see what the day will bring, how I will feed that passion.”

Source : "John Densmore on Life, Love, Meditation and His New Book, 'The Doors: Unhinged'". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 1, 2013.

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