Making art is about accepting what’s going on around you and turning it into

Make sure you stay in touch with beauty instead of letting the ugliness of the world corrupt your soul

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.

You just never know when somebodys gonna die. It could happen at any moment so youve got to really treat everybody that way. Just really let everybody know how you feel about them.

I just love the feeling a close family gives you and I wouldn't change it for anything.

I changed the city of New York. I gave people back their morale.

I did a picture for the First Barbie doll box.

In front of the world, all of a sudden I'm a great athlete and I'm put into an environment with 25 other women and I'm expected to go to team meals, team functions.

No matter how bad it is, or how bad it gets; I'm going to make it.

I wouldn't live in Chicago cause it's too conservative, aside for the fact that Oprah Winfrey lives there.

I can do only one thing, like a little dog follow closely the Master's footsteps. Pray that I be a cheerful dog.

Through the picture, I see reality; through words, I understand it.

A man's religion consists, not of the many things he is in doubt of and tries to believe, but of the few he is assured of and has no need of effort for believing.

All my friends are but one, but He is all sufficient.