Rock music is electronic music, dependent entirely on electronic circuitry and amplification.

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.

If the bird was made, it chose to be made. It's here because it chooses to be with you.

Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.

Whatever you do in this lifetime, strive to make your parents happy and proud

Too bad the things that make you mad are my favorite things.

You want to make him interested in you? Then pretend to be embarrassed in his presence-

The most human thing about us is our technology.

My mother is the bravest human being I've ever come across.

Jews, black people - any people who are hated or who have suffered, either as individuals or as a people - use humour. It is a survival skill.

There's a personal me, there's an actor me and there's a star me.

What we all like in life, I think, is the challenge of making something... that is not easy to do.