Skip to content
quotesby

About this quote

What does it mean?
A declaration of absolute personal freedom and capability, often interpreted as a metaphor for artistic or rebellious power.
In plain terms
I am free to do whatever I want.
What can you take from it?
Asserting total autonomy over one's actions and identity.

Where it applies

  • self-assertion
  • artistic statement
  • rebellion

Putting it to work

  • claim your autonomy
  • define your own limits

Questions to consider

  • What limits do you accept?
  • Who defines what you can do?

Another view

Taken literally, it ignores physical and social constraints.

More from Jim Morrison

  1. Hatred is a very underestimated emotion.

    Permalink to quote #75
  2. I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown.

    Permalink to quote #77
  3. Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself-and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen …

    Permalink to quote #74

Related quotes

  1. White collar conservative flashin' down the street, Pointing that plastic finger at me, Hoping soon my kind will drop and die, But I'm gonna wave my freak flag…

    Jimi HendrixJimi Hendrix quote #5
  2. Im glad that you're older than me Makes me feel important and free Is that make you smile, isnt that me?!

    David BowieDavid Bowie quote #15
  3. God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discon…

    Thomas JeffersonThomas Jefferson quote #18