It seems like the chaos of this world is accelerating, but so is the beauty in the consciousness of more and more people.

As long as a person is breathing, there is hope for them.

Sometimes, out of really horrible things come really beautiful things.

I would have to say the person with whom I am most in love is definitely my son, Everly Bear. Although I'm his dad, I'm also his friend.

I had not had any drugs for 5 years but then I relapsed again. I have also smoked nearly everything. Every day it was a battle to recover, which I fought for my son and myself.

My days are whatever I want them to be. I don't have to go worry about chasing some chemical to make me feel OK for a minute, and then make me feel worse.

Every true artist is at war with the world.

I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction.

Just the kind of girl I liked—the weirdo in the bunch.

To be 26 years old and lose your left heart ventricle was probably the most dramatic thing that's ever happened to me in my life...

I know I'm in the band and everything but sometimes I just have to rock out to the John Frusciante Experience.

Growth is limited by the necessity which is present in the least amount. And naturally, the least favorable condition controls the growth rate

Talent is being unabashedly and unapologetically fearless in the work that you do. The only difference between having talent and not having talent is fear.

If our vaunted rule of the people does not breed nobler men and women than monarchies have done it must and will inevitably give place to something better.

There’s something about it that makes other good habits easier.

To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.

I haven't seen comedy as popular as it is now since when I started, in the late 1980s boom. It feels like that again, in that it's everywhere, and it's great to see.

Charisma becomes the undoing of leaders. It makes them inflexible, convinced of their own infallibility, unable to change

All human beings have magic in them. The secret is to know how to use this magic.

When somebody tells you they're not very smart, they're saying exactly the opposite.

That wasn't good, that wasn't sportsmanship. I was amazed he took that shot.