“Jim wanted to be known as a poet, first and foremost.” — Ray Manzarek Quote

“Jim wanted to be known as a poet, first and foremost.”

“I need three million dollars to make a low-budget, intellectual, artistic, exciting, erotic movie with a great soundtrack.”

“Jim, as just a spoken poet, was not that good. He needed the music behind him. He felt a security and a sense of abandon when the music existed around him.”

“First and foremost: I'm a metal fan. I'm a musician, an artist, but I'm a complete fan and I've never grown out of the complete fan faze I had when I was 13 or 14 - that's always stayed with me. I'm always trying to discover new bands.”

“Perhaps first and foremost is the challenge of taking what I find as a reader and making it into a poem that, primarily, has to be a plausible poem in English.”

“I am a rugby player and first and foremost I am a man.”