The curtains were made for moving Cause you know sometimes you're not always there

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 best thing she was, was her children.

I'm not afraid of new things. I'm just afraid of feeling alone even when there's somebody else there. I'm afraid of feeling bad. Maybe that's selfish, but it's the way I feel.

A murderer is a killer without a uniform.

I think all music is a gift from God.

One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.

All this technology for connection and what we really only know more about is how anonymous we are in the grand scheme of things.

Writing with privacy is paramount. You must feel free to admit to yourself your deepest, darkest secrets and true feelings.

The body is shaped, disciplined, honored, and in time, trusted.

He has not truly lived who has not lived for others, in sympathy and in harmony with his fellows.

Teach your children gratefulness. Do all you can to deliver them from our culture's poisonous entitlement mentality.