I think any music of any worth has been done by people who were very interested in the internal process of their soul and their mind that's taking place while they're writing music.

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.

But what I think my emphasis is, is on the fact that I like music a lot.

A bath and a tenderloin steak. Those are the high points of a man's life.

I'd gone through the ups and downs and curveballs that life throws at you. I found writing to be very therapeutic and it helped me with a lot of the stuff I was going through.

I can only play the sport for so long, I have mathematics for the rest of my life.

One of the very important ideas of feminism for me has always been women helping and supporting each other.

If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy.

Writing down your trades is the best exercise in the world.

Although the financial crisis, you know, receded a while ago, we kind of never picked up on it.

Madison Avenue is a very powerful aggression against private consciousness. A demand that you yield your private consciousness to public manipulation.

None of us is alone in this world; each of us is a vital piece of the great mosaic of humanity as a whole.