"Its a search, an opening of one door after another. And yet there's no consistent philosophy or politics. Sensuousness and evil is an attractive image to us now, but think of it as a snakeskin that will be shed sometime. Our work, our performing, is a striving for metamorphosis. Right now, I'm more interested in the dark side of life, the evil thing, the dark side of the moon, the night time. But in our music it appears to me that were seeking, striving, trying to break through to some cleaner, freer realm.

Its like a purification ritual in the alchemical sense. First, you have the period of disorder, chaos, returning to a primeval disaster region. Out of that you purify the elements and find a new seed of life, which transforms all life and all matter and the personality until, finally, hopefully, you emerge and marry all the those dualisms and opposites. Then you're not talking about evil and good anymore but something unified and pure. Our music and personalities as seen in the performance are still in a state of chaos and disorder with maybe an incipient element of purity kind of starting. Lately when we've appeared in person, its started to merge together."

-- Jim Morrison, Publicity Interview 1967, Newsweek, LA.