The Will to Death is what keeps me alive

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.

A positive life can never come from a mind that dwells on repeated negative interpretations of its experiences.

A black Christian is like a black person with no memory.

One should do what one is best at on as large a scale as possible.

[My mother] called [my voice] the gift.

All I want to say, with the utmost emphasis at my command, is that the description of India as a military country is wrong.

Used to move so much, every time the chickens saw the team put in the wagon, they'd lie down on their backs and hold their legs up to be tied!

Discovery hapens in the overlap of difference communities... in the clashes of difference.

I simply want you to give to yourself as much as you give of yourself. By taking care of yourself financially, you will truly be able to take care of those you love.

Don’t recall. Don’t imagine. Don’t think. Don’t examine. Don’t control. Rest.

Ten thousand saw I at a glance, tossing their heads in sprightly dance.