Danny Sugerman

“Jim Morrison was a poet and a shaman, not a rock star.”

“He was living out his own myth, and we were all just characters in it.”

“Heroin is a great painkiller. It's also a great everything-killer.”

“The '60s were a time of great promise and great excess. The Doors embodied both.”

“They were the ultimate garage band. They were better than their recordings.”

“You can't separate the art from the artist, not with someone like Jim. His life was the art.”

“I started out as a fan, and in many ways, I ended as one.”

“He took it all the way, and that's what people responded to. There was no artifice.”

“Our job was to keep the music alive and introduce it to new generations, without cheapening it.”

“There was a darkness in Jim that was magnetic.”

“The book became this bible for a new generation of Doors fans.”