Duba wurin da ke ƙasa sannan ka amsa tambayar daga baya a cikin harshe ɗaya kamar yadda wurin yake:  Tafiya: A matsayin iyalin masu aikin ruwa, iyalin Morrison suna ƙaura a kai a kai. Sakamakon haka, an katse ilimin Morrison na farko yayin da ya koma daga makaranta zuwa makaranta. Duk da haka, an jawo shi zuwa nazarin wallafe-wallafe, shayari, addini, falsafa da ilimin halayyar mutum, a tsakanin sauran fannoni. Marubutan tarihin rayuwar Morrison sun ambata wasu marubuta da kuma masana falsafa da suka yi tasiri a tunaninsa da kuma, wataƙila, a halinsa. Sa'ad da yake matashi, Morrison ya koyi abubuwa da yawa game da Friedrich Nietzsche, wani ɗan falsafa na Jamus. An kuma jawo shi zuwa waƙoƙin William Blake, Charles Baudelaire, da Arthur Rimbaud. Marubutan Beat Generation kamar Jack Kerouac da marubuta masu sassaucin ra'ayi kamar Marquis de Sade suma suna da tasiri mai ƙarfi akan hangen nesa da yanayin Morrison; Morrison yana da sha'awar fuskantar rayuwar da aka bayyana a Kerouac's On the Road. Haka kuma ya jawo hankalin marubucin Faransanci Louis-Ferdinand Céline. Littafin Céline, Voyage Au Bout de la Nuit (Tafiya zuwa Ƙarshen Dare) da kuma Blake's Auguries of Innocence dukansu suna maimaitawa ta ɗayan waƙoƙin Morrison na farko, "End of Night". Daga baya Morrison ya sadu kuma ya yi abokantaka da Michael McClure, sanannen mawaƙin Beat. McClure ya ji daɗin kalmomin Morrison amma ya fi sha'awar waƙarsa kuma ya ƙarfafa shi ya ci gaba da haɓaka sana'arsa. Ganin Morrison game da wasan kwaikwayon ya kasance mai launi ne ta hanyar ayyukan marubucin wasan kwaikwayo na Faransa na karni na 20 Antonin Artaud (marubucin Theater da Double) da kuma Julian Beck's Living Theater. Sauran ayyukan da suka shafi addini, sihiri, tsohuwar almara da alamomi sun kasance masu sha'awa na dindindin, musamman Joseph Campbell's Jarumi tare da Fuskokin Dubu. James Frazer's The Golden Bough kuma ya zama tushen wahayi kuma an nuna shi a cikin taken da kalmomin waƙar "Ba don taɓa Duniya ba". Morrison ya kasance yana da sha'awar al'adun gargajiya da addinai na al'adun 'yan asalin Amurka. Yayin da yake har yanzu a makaranta, iyalinsa suka koma New Mexico inda ya ga wasu wurare da kayan tarihi masu muhimmanci ga kudancin Amurka...  Tambaya: Waɗanne mawaƙa ne suka rinjayi tunanin Morrison
William Blake, Charles Baudelaire, da kuma Arthur Rimbaud