But for me if I'm gonna read about something I'd rather read a pamphlet or the instructions to a synthesizer than a book on Buddhism.

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.

Giving love to someone sometimes happens without thought or control.

I wouldn't say I'm a political junkie. I follow it. I read a few articles every day.

As a musician you have to keep one foot back in the past and have one foot forward into the future.

The mountains of today are the molehills of tomorrow.

Knowledge is Power. Ignorance is Bliss. But curiosity—even if it had killed the cat—is king.

The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. Freedom and slavery are mental states.

It is one of history's greatest ironies that, over the centuries, the pursuit of pleasure has resulted in more pain than enjoyment.

I had never been to Hawaii, and now I say that my body is from L.A. but my heart is from Hawaii, because I'm in love with it and it's home on every level, from a spiritual, soulful place.

There's no one as transparent as the person who thinks he's devilish deep.