I write lyrics. I play the guitar. If the rest of the band had to do my schedule, they would be dead

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.

To have a real and long lasting relation partners should either have mutual goal or possess the same capabilities.

I'd never done anything useful as far as my writing.

I don't believe in ever putting a dog down for behavior issues, because that's just punishing the dog for something wrong that humans did.

Tell me a way you think this can work." "We'll find a way," I tell her. "That's not an answer. It's a hope." "Hope's gotten us this far. Not answers.

God exists because arithmetic is consistent - the Devil exists because we can't prove it!

Men do not change; they unmask themselves.

The most dangerous food a man can eat is wedding cake. Woman like silent men, they think they are listening.

I kind of think I have the best job in America. I work with amazing people who challenge me daily. My job as a memeber of DoSomething.org is never boring. I'm constantly learning. And we laugh a lot.

If you are not offending people who ought to be offended, you're doing something wrong.

Always follow your heart and have faith in yourself and believe in the Lord and He will believe in you.