A slave in the fields one night He's running along Gets far enough to be a free man And he's feeling so strong

Make sure you stay in touch with beauty instead of letting the ugliness of the world corrupt your soul

Making art is about accepting what’s going on around you and turning it into

What's gone will never come back, but it exists when you think of it.

I still love with all my heart anything that I have ever loved in my life.

That's what I spend most of my time doing, breathing a lot. I like air.

When the intellectual part of guitar playing overrides the spiritual, you don't get to extreme heights.

Even if my songs are a bit low-spirited, they make me happy. I become happy when I hear sad songs. When you sing about sad things in a beautiful way, the atmosphere turns upside down

Music is my friend, no matter where I go.

The imagination is the most real world that we know because we each know it first hand.

In the Chili Peppers I'm a part of that world in a pretty big world and that's just the way it is.

If you read Scarlett Avery, you know it's an awesome read! - Mary Johnston

You carry/All the ingredients/To turn your life into a nightmare--/Don't mix them!

Dominicans are in fact, Haitians by default.Since the natives named the whole island named Haïti, stop being a dolt.

Discipline and unconditional support is earned by understanding and trust and inclusion. Not by isolation, not by nasty tricks.

Let me alone: I have yet my legs and one arm. Tell the surgeon to make haste and his instruments. I know I must lose my right arm, so the sooner it's off the better.

I hated the royal wedding.

I'm sometimes afraid I'll cross a line and it'll be difficult to come back, say, to dinner.

From the solitude of the wood, (Man) has passed to the more dreadful solitude of the heart.

I think as time goes on that generation of rappers who's making it now is gonna face the same thing that my generation was facing, which is the decrease of sales. The decrease of hard-copies.