Anthony Kiedis Quotes

You know what's the worst? Being a 16 year old girl who loves a famous Singer, not solely for his looks, but because you truly believe he is talented and devoted and you agree deeply with his message. Because no matter how intelligently and fully you can express that, people will assume you're just a silly teenager who thinks a famous guy is cute.

It is difficult to recognize true love, the one which you feel for the other person, when for years the girls, even more than one per night, after concerts would sneak in our beds and were willing to do everything - group sex also - just to stay with Anthony Kiedis and the Red Hot.

It seems like the chaos of this world is accelerating, but so is the beauty in the consciousness of more and more people.

I've wanted to feel pleasure to the point of insanity. They call it getting high, because it's wanting to know that higher level, that godlike level. You want to touch the heavens, you want to feel glory and euphoria, but the trick is it takes work. You can't buy it, you can't get it on a street corner, you can't steal it or inject it or shove it up your ass, you have to earn it.

As long as a person is breathing, there is hope for them.

I don't even bother trying to picture a perfect world, because I don't think that perfection is something to strive for. I prefer imperfection. That's what makes things special. You know, things that change

Sometimes, out of really horrible things come really beautiful things.

Once I opened my mind to the concept of a greater power, I never struggled with it. Everywhere I went, I felt and saw the existence of a creative intelligence in this universe, of a loving power larger than myself in nature, in people, everywhere.

There was an uncommon array of people in there [rehab] with me, and I became friends with all of them. You recognize the possibility of your own demise in the lives of these other people. You're doing the same thing they are, but you can't see it in yourself. However, you start seeing all of these tragedies and potential miracles in other people. It's a real eye- and heart-opening situation.

I had not had any drugs for 5 years but then I relapsed again. I have also smoked nearly everything. Every day it was a battle to recover, which I fought for my son and myself.

My days are whatever I want them to be. I don't have to go worry about chasing some chemical to make me feel OK for a minute, and then make me feel worse.

I would have to say the person with whom I am most in love is definitely my son, Everly Bear. Although I'm his dad, I'm also his friend.

Every true artist is at war with the world.

I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction.

Death by evaporation. May the saltwater wind that gets shot out of a barreling wave blow me away like an old puffy dandelion into the sky.

I'm very aware of the chemistry. It's something you can't take for granted. I'm very thankful for it and I recognise the power of its reality in all of our lives. Some people don't and it's a mistake not to because people throw away god-given special chemistry that's very rare, very hard to find.

I've been vegetarian since the 80s and, lately, even vegan. And I once happened to witness the slaughter of a cow. What atrocity must undergo an animal to satisfy the appetite of those fat men who eat hamburgers!

Just the kind of girl I liked—the weirdo in the bunch.

I had to sit with my senses. This clear, beautiful intuition took over. I knew exactly how I felt, and I wasn't confused or clouded or compromised. I realized that none of my feelings had diminished, but I might have to lose someone I truly loved. I didn't want to run away from Claire, but I knew drug addiction was strong enough that I had to be willing, if need be, to let go of the person I'd just fallen in love with.

I know I'm in the band and everything but sometimes I just have to rock out to the John Frusciante Experience.

To be 26 years old and lose your left heart ventricle was probably the most dramatic thing that's ever happened to me in my life...

This Life is More than Just a read through.

I never felt like dying was a good idea.

As a father now, I wouldn't do what my dad did, because it left me feeling emotionally unstable as a kid. But he didn't do the things he did out of selfishness or malice.

Sometimes life's so much cooler when you just don't know any better and all the painful lessons have not hammered your head open yet.

I don't even know what words to use to talk about the music industry anymore. But the business has changed a lot - the methods of releasing music.

When you start putting pen to paper, you see a side of your personal truth that doesn't otherwise reveal itself in conversation or thought.

I'm probably not long-term-relationship material for now.

I'm still a little bent, a little crooked, but all things considered, I can't complain.

The fact that I was a junkie for a long time is only one slice of my own personal pie, which is made up of a lot of different slices.

That's a spiritual lifestyle, being willing to admit that you don't know everything and that you were wrong about some things. It's about making a list of all the people you've harmed, either emotionally or physically or financially, and going back and making amends. That's a spiritual lifestyle. It's not a fluffy ethereal concept.

I discovered surfing, which I absolutely fell in love with. That feels good and kind of keeps your body aligned, so does the salt water.

Why should we think nudity is such a revolting thing in a land where there is so much violence and corruption and racism and hatred? Nudity seems like a welcome relief from all the bullshit in life.

I would consider him definitely one of my very best friends and I know he feels the same about me. We have a lot of love and respect.

Time and distance have a way of playing tricks with your best intentions.

When I looked into her eyes, I saw an invisible spirit of something that I already loved.

I had seen these transformations, people who had lost their will to live, coming back from their zombie states and radiating a new life force from their eyes.

Buddhism helps me to have a healthy relationship with my body and spirit.

Adolescence is such a fun time in your life, because you think you know it all, and you haven’t gotten to the point where you realize that you know almost nothing.

I don't worry about new young bands. The bounty of life is infinite and so is music and so are opportunities.

Now I can look back and say I actually like the upbringing I had and my father was very attentive and a great educator.

You know I love pot, and I love beer, but I am totally sober, just because it completely stopped working for me.

The fact my relationship with my son is so good makes me forgiving of my father and also appreciative.

Music itself was color-blind but the media and the radio stations segregate it based on their perceptions of the artists.

My father rebelled ferociously against his conservative upbringing where his father physically abused him.

If that's what you're thinking, then don't even question it. Go let your freak flag fly, brother.

I'm a crier - let me know if you need some tips. I could cry every day, in a good way.

I knew there was never anyone to blame when people get into drugs. They're always responsible for their own behavior, and it's not the dealer, it's not the friend, it's not the bad influence, it's not the childhood.

Honestly, I'm really just a teddy bear.

We used to fight to the death but we tried the experiment, rolled the dice and like we got.