The imagination is the most real world that we know because we each know it first hand.

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.

In the Chili Peppers I'm a part of that world in a pretty big world and that's just the way it is.

You just never know when somebodys gonna die. It could happen at any moment so youve got to really treat everybody that way. Just really let everybody know how you feel about them.

A star wants to see himself rise to the top.A leader wants to see those around him rise to the top.

Goal-getting matters. And writing down the brave acts and bold dreams you intend to accomplish will provide the spark to get them done.

You cannot protect your solitude if you cannot make yourself odious.

I notice now, whatever character in whatever movie youre watching, they have these toned arms and muscles.

As a governor and senator, John Chafee set the standard for honesty and decency that the rest of us on our best days could only dream to emulate.

A thick stick in one's hand makes people respectful.

It's the formulaic studio movies the make money, and when they do, the actors in them are automatically movie stars.

Within chaos lies opportunity.

It takes far less energy to move from first-rate performance to excellence than it does to move from incompetence to mediocrity.

I think, therefore I doubt.