What's gone will never come back, but it exists when you think of it.

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

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.

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.

Prayer ain't weakened by distance.

Now go stand in the corner and think about what you did.

Words may be false and full of art Sighs are the natural language of the heart.

Adolescence is just one big walking pimple.

In the past, I've thrown myself into work so much there's been very little room for anything else.

Voting is completely important. People in America think democracy is a given. I think of it as an ecosystem, and what gets in the way of it is politicians and apathy.

I've never walked home wearing just a pink robe and a pair of slippers.

Everyone's right or wrong, Everyone's got an opinion, put them in a song and let me keep on living.

Nobody is going to take my kids away from me and I will fight to the death for that.

There are a lot of ways that investment banking models work, but these risks are not internalized by the people that are taking them.