Anthony Kiedis, Scar Tissue Quotes

Every true artist is at war with the world.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Give her the continent and she wanted the hemisphere.

When you realize that there's a name and a description for this condition that you thought was insanity, you've identified the problem, and now you can do something about it.

My work was done, so it was time to start digging my grave again.

I stopped hating and started just being. My whole life, I had been the most defensive person you'd meet, unable to tolerate any criticism. But now I started listening and being.

Every time you empty your vessel of that energy, fresh new energy comes flooding in.

Nothing was working, and my friend was dead, and I didn't want to look at that.

I was starting to come to grips with the fact that I had created a lot of pain and suffering around me, not just within me.

A year jammed full of adventure and misadventure, strides forward and many steps backward, another year in my topsy-turvy, Jekyll-and-Hyde existence.

One of the better definitions of insanity - doing the exact same thing over and over and expecting the result to be different.

That was how we wanted to play, majestic and chaotic.

The fact that my circumstances had changed drastically but my behavior hadn't was beginning to wear on me.