The main thing experience has taught me is that one has to sort of hone their relationship to time, you know.

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.

Misery will not come to the one who does not deceive his own Self. Miseries arise because one deceives one’s own Self.

The fire is coming and even we are not safe in the grave.

I'’m generally in favor of economic globalization. Having said that, it doesn’t always work and does not immediately work in the interest of all. There are sufferers.

For he that once is good, is ever great.

This We Know. All Things Are Connected

Well, I've been to Iraq twice now. I was in Baghdad in June and then north of Baghdad in November.

There are a lot of decisions to make, creatively. Now, with digital, you can really be the author of your own work. From the beginning to the end of the process, you control everything.

My strength has now been reduced to the equivalent of 36 squadrons...we should be able to carry on the war single-handed for some time if not indefinitely.

Prayer is either petitional or, in its wider sense, inward communion.

A great challenge: stop ruining the garden which God has entrusted to us so that all may enjoy it.