I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos-especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom... Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical.

Morrison frames “revolt, disorder, chaos” not as mere destruction but as a method for breaking inherited constraints—social, artistic, and psychological. What looks like meaningless activity becomes, in his view, a way to slip past conventional rationality and discover freer states of being. The second sentence clarifies an aesthetic and spiritual program: he privileges the body, sensation, performance, and lived experience (“outside,” “physical”) as the gateway to altered consciousness (“mental”). Read this way, the quote aligns with countercultural ideas of liberation through transgression and with Morrison’s stage persona, where intensity, improvisation, and risk are treated as tools for expanding awareness.