Anthony Kiedis Art Quotations

But then when he left, I realized that it was harder to write songs and feel spiritually connected to art and music as a band. When he came back I felt it again, instantaneously.

To be 26 years old and lose your left heart ventricle was probably the most dramatic thing that's ever happened to me in my life.

Even as the words came out of my mouth, my heart was dying a million deaths.

I'm an artist and I get very attached to my own little ditties.

Music itself was color-blind but the media and the radio stations segregate it based on their perceptions of the artists.

Paul McCartney's dad told him that when he was a kid. "Son, play the piano and when you go to parties, the girls will come to you."

Every true artist is at war with the world.

There was an uncommon array of people in there [rehab] with me, and I became friends with all of them. You recognize the possibility of your own demise in the lives of these other people. You're doing the same thing they are, but you can't see it in yourself. However, you start seeing all of these tragedies and potential miracles in other people. It's a real eye- and heart-opening situation.

I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction.