I just feel like the songs that come out are the songs that come.

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.

A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn

Not, how much of my money will I give to God, but, how much of God’s money will I keep for myself?

If we want a better original idea, we must generate our own before we screen others' suggestions.

The bereaved had never any doubt about their dear ones' wishes and those wishes usually squared with their own inclinations.

The biggest waste of brainpower is to want to change something that's not changeable.

To lose something in the will of God is to find something better.

I felt, that night, on that stage, under that skull, incredibly close to everything in the universe, but also extremely alone.

I was raised on the internet.

My strategy is that I actually have absolutely no strategy.

Las Vegas is a city of kickbacks. A desert city of greased palms. A place where a $20 bill can buy approval, a $100 bill adulation and $1,000 canonization.