If anything unfolds, it's supposed to

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.

When you lose your job, you gain ownership of your life

With great responsibility comes great power.

I'm always on the side of the characters, rather than the side of the people attacking them. I get realistic. It's not gratuitous.

You get America out of Iraq, you get Israel out of Palestine.

Be strong. Live the gospel faithfully even if others around you don’t live it at all.

...whoever you are, not matter how lonely the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh & exciting - over & over announcing your place in the family of things.

You don't have to be larger than life to be a hero, just larger than yourself.

God says to man: 'Be thou thyself, and I shall be thine.'

They send their shout to the stars. [Lat., Clamorem ad sidera mittunt.]

You have never tasted freedom, friend, or you would know it is purchased not with gold, but steel.