Music is my friend, no matter where I go.

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

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.

At the age of four, you were an artist. And at seven, you were a poet.

Every natural love will rise again and live forever in this country: but none will rise again until it has been buried.

Read, not to believe, contradict or complement, but to understand.

The energy of love is indestructible

The good citizen need not of necessity possess the virtue which makes a good man.

Suffering borne in the will quietly and patiently is a continual, very powerful prayer before God.

I was always trying to take art photographs, but the most interesting pictures were the snapshots. The artsy pictures were boring, always.

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Huge herds of vigorous, curious, open-eyed Americans freely roaming the world are, it seems to me, quite possibly a vital national resource today as at no other time in our history.

There is no force equal to a woman determined to rise