"Bravery is believing in yourself, and that thing nobody can teach you."

“An artist is no bigger than the size of his mind.”

“People forget that public people and celebrities, they too have to go to the bathroom and get divorced.”

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

“Before we make music, music makes us.”

“Justice for the major perpetrators cannot be separated from the vindication of the rights of the individual victim.”

“Which brings me to my conclusion upon Free Will and Predestination, namely - let the reader mark it - that they are identical.”

“Infrastructure creates the form of a city and enables life to go on in a city, in a certain way.”

Source : "The Next American System". BLUEPRINT AMERICA interview, www.pbs.org. May 20, 2009.

“I was lucky. I had a lot of really good influences.”

“None of my sisters are in the movies, nor are my nieces going to be. That's how Dutt 'sahab,' my dad, brought up the girls in the family, and I am just carrying his thought forward.”