"Sitting on the beach thinking what I'm going to do with my life and who comes walking down the beach but the shaman himself. This transformation . . . Jim transformed himself. He went inside of a cocoon and came out absolutely gorgeous. He'd lost maybe thirty pounds. He was living on a friend's rooftop ingesting massive quantities of a certain psychedelic substance and didn't eat . . . was living off his baby fat and he was approximately 165, 170 pounds at U.C.L.A. and then went down to maybe 135. Six feet tall, lean, hard . . . his hair had grown. He looked like David, he looked like Michelangelo's David. I said, 'God, you look great man, what you been doing?' He said, 'Nothing, I haven't been eating' and he said, 'I've been writing some songs' . . . songs, aaahh." - Ray Manzarek
Source:Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, 2:11:83. - The conference was chaired by Robin Denselow, at that time, presenter of BBC-2's "Eight Days A Week"