Sometimes it takes just living your life a certain way to be able to open yourself to the rhythm of the cosmos.

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.

Peace does not walk up to our doorsteps and press the calling bell! We have to go out there and search for it.

To hell with you. To hell with you and to hell with the Internet.

This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.

I always work with refugees and I think they are the most amazing people and it's a privilege to spend time with them, so I will always.

Creativity is an input to innovation and change is the output from innovation.

I'm not afraid of chaos and I'm happy talking to strangers. I really love not knowing where I'm going.

An actor's job is about putting across the author's intention; I don't think of myself on the same level as a creator.

If only I could look up and touch a tetromino-filled sky... Until then, I thankfully have Dream of Pixels.

Success doesn't bring happiness. Only material stuff like money, cars and iPods can do that. And I've already got all that. So I have to find other ways to amuse myself.

Evil, in this system of ethics, is that which tears apart, shuts out the other person, raises barriers, sets people against each other.