So when I feel the spirit upon me it's something I don't take it for granted, and I don't think I'm solely responsible for these things.

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.

Prayer is making space available for God to do beautiful things with your life.

What the mass media offer is not popular art but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food forgotten and replaced by a new dish.

Either a wise man will not go into bunkers, or, being in, he will endure such things as befall him with patience.

Hee that blowes in the dust fills his eyes with it.

I'm going to teach you to HATE spending money.

This, I thought, was true love. Someone who made you happy without saying a word.

The error is in the assumption that the General Government is a party to the constitutional compact. The States ... formed the compact, acting as sovereign and independent communities.

The most dangerous kind of person... is one who is afraid of his own shadow.

CLAIRE:your washing right? shane:i'll pay you for it. claire:what? shane:best high score wins claire:no bet 'wash, dish boy

When I was a teenager, the number one book I was most obsessed with was 'Gone with the Wind.