Anthony Kiedis Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

We didn't think about it but we never wanted to sound like anybody else.

Four years into the life of my son, I realize I'm so in love with him and he's so in love with me that if I don't find that lifelong partner out there, it's okay.

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.

Give her the continent and she wanted the hemisphere.

Writing music always happened for me in periods when I wasn't under the influence of mind-altering substance.

The collective love for music and poetry and just the brotherhood of sound. And it's still kind of flowing through me and I attribute that to the team.

We did that with people like Chris Rock, Woody Harrelson, and the environmentalist Julia Butterfly Hill.

I don't take drugs nor drink since 2000 and I must say that I don't think about it anymore, although like every person that was addicted and has money - I know that this can lead to temptation.

I was like a clock that had exploded- my springs were hanging out, my hands were cockeyed, and my numbers were falling off.

Also, we're all actually different blood types and we have one represented by each guy in the band.

I wish there were more good new bands that would light a fire and offer a little friendly competition that would be welcomed.

If you want to get along with somebody, let them be right, and it will last longer.

We've just learned how to balance ourselves a little better so that we're happier way more of the time than not, and, you know, being happy is a radical and desirable act if you ask me.

It takes away a lot of the thrill of killing yourself when people are looking for you and you're disappointing them, because it is a lot of fun when you're out there killing yourself.

I've got used to touring. If you make calculations of the nights spent in hotels in my life, multiplied by the tattoos I have for hundred.