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

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.

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.

You just never know when somebodys gonna die. It could happen at any moment so youve got to really treat everybody that way. Just really let everybody know how you feel about them.

Like Momma says, only thing you get by digging dirt is dirty.

The person who feels secure, loved, safe and happy inside will have a secure, safe and happy life. Your inner integrity will be matched by those around you.

Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.

Confidence brings joy when we let God be God.

What are you afraid of then? Not Being able to see, I think not seeing because your obsessed by something that blots out the world.

He who purposely cheats his friend would cheat his God.

a weak and irresolute disposition is often more destructive than determined vice.

I'm normally last and I'm quite a late person and that is just who I am.

There is every reason for being cautious about founding new universities till India has digested Her newly acquired freedom.

If you're stupid and you're arrogant, you're going to get hurt.