Right now my taste is going more for things that are organic where the people are using all the sonic possibilities in interesting ways.

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.

The problem of the world is that it needs silence... compassion and passion. Once it's found, the world will be changed.

Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.

The educator shall help the young to educate themselves in opposition to the age.

I face my demons and embrace my fate.

That's my Shinobi Way

I know vegetarians don't like to hear this, but God made an awful lot of land that's good for nothing but grazing.

My heart's desire is to be recognised in Nigeria.

It is so difficult to make a neat job of killing people with whom one is not on friendly terms.

Music is only a mystery to people who want it explained. Music and love are the same.

If you ask, "Am I my brother's keeper?" The answer is, "You are.