He was consciously doing 'Greek God,' yes he was.

"Jim Morrison was conscious of everything. For that classic photo of Jim, the 'Young Lion,' he was gonna out-Jean Shrimpton Jean Shrimpton. Boy, that hair was nice. And the pose he struck was amazing. You saw Jim in person and think he's a handsome guy — strong cheekbones and jawbone. But you never thought of him as pretty as he was in those photos. How handsome was Dionysus in the ancient Grecian days? That was one beautiful young man. And Jim Morrison, being a personification of the Dionysian impulse, was also that beautiful young man. The only thing he lacked was grapevines and a leopard skin. He was consciously doing 'Greek God,' yes he was."

q&a with Ray Manzarek - by barry walters for emusic.com

nobody is coming from outer space, from the invisible world

We need to take over the corporations. We need to take over the banks. We need to take over all that stuff. And, the goal of that is to save the environment, save the planet. Don’t destroy the planet. Nobody is coming from outer space, from the invisible world. He’s not coming. He’s not coming back. He was here. Did you miss the message? He’s not coming back and when He comes back, everything will be alright. He’s not coming back. We have to change the environment. We have to save it. We have to stop emitting all of the pollutants into the air because He’s not coming back to right it. I keep wondering why the hell – no offense if you are a Republican and if you are, let me offer you something to think about – why don’t they care about the environment? How come they don’t care about the environment? You know why? Because when He comes back…

Really. I can’t breathe the air, I’m sorry, on a bad day in L.A., you look up. Well what is that all from? What’s that from? That’s from the exhaust from the cars. Let’s clean it up. So anyway, that’s what we were all about and hopefully you want to do it too. You’ve gotta vote and you’ve got to buy. You’ve got two powers. You’ve got ballot power and you’ve got dollar power. What are you going to buy? Don’t buy junk, don’t buy crap, don’t buy the manufactured stuff. Buy produce that’s made close to home within a 150 mile radius. We’ve gotta put our thinking caps on. You have to because of the fuckin’ old timers man. You guys shouldn’t have to worry about this. You should worry about your job and your significant other. It’s up to us, but unfortunately, you pass 60 and you become very afraid, and you can’t maintain that rebel stance anymore. You’re going to see it the old fashioned way and you can’t turn into the new way of doing things. So you guys have to add to the numbers of the hip old people versus the squares. It always was – it’s the lovers versus the killers and it’s still that way.

collider.com interivew with sheila roberts - april 7 2010

but then "jimbo" would appear

In the beginning we were just college kids, you know. Driving around town, dreaming of being successful. There was some point when he coined the phrase ’I am the Lizard King, I can do anything’. I thought, ’Oh my God, what is he doing, he’s wearing a lizard suit now instead of the leather pants but is he buying his own creation or manipulating it? What is happening here, fuelled by the drink?'
First of all drugs is a very complicated subject. We did early experiments with psychedelics, which were actually legal at the time, and then you know, when the culture went on to cocaine... there’s a huge difference between pot and crack.
I’m not going to say that... well I will say it as Jim got into the legal drugs: Cigarettes and alcohol kills most people. That’s when we had to close the studio down, and the next morning when he was sober we’d get a good take.

- john densmore

I took LSD, too — it helped open the doors to perception. LSD could show you heaven, but it could also show you hell. A bad acid trip could take away all the swirling energy that makes you live. We really didn’t take it before shows, though. Well, maybe Jim did. Normally, John, Robby and I would smoke a joint and drink some beers before going onstage.
I think aggravating is the perfect word. We would sit there and hope the good Jim Morrison would show up. Sometimes he did and the studio sessions were fantastic. But then ‘Jimbo’ would appear, completely drunk and unable to string together a sentence without slurring. It was the height of his alcoholism.The guys in the band would try and help him, but it didn’t help. He was an Irish poet and what do they do? Drink and drink and drink.

- ray manzarek