Yeah, I really like being alive. But I definitely don't have any intentions as an artist.

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.

Gathering eggs is commonsense

Flowing egoism is not objectionable but if it is caught-up even a little-bit

Jesus modeled true leadership as both personal and hospitable.

It perplexes me. How can one sad incident compensate ten happy incidents? Why? Happiness is losing.

It's always better to be underdressed.

If I'm in a relationship, that girl gets showered with letters from the road. I pour my heart into it.

Even a little dog can piss on a big building.

What? Men dodging this way for single bullets? What will you do when they open fire along the whole line? I am ashamed of you. They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance.

I do not want any patronage, as I do not give any. I am a lover of my own liberty, and so I would do nothing to restrict yours. I simply want to please my own conscience which is God.

There were a couple of times I wondered whether I was going to get a pink slip.