Anthony Kiedis Quotations

I inherited my father's insatiable desire to meet all the beautiful girls in the world.

Personally, I am stuck with one foot in the past and one foot in the present.

Sometimes life's so much cooler when you just don't know any better and all the painful lessons have not hammered your head open yet.

I never really thought in terms of the concept of being a rock star - being around people like that just seemed like normal day-in-the-life stuff to me. Those were just the surroundings I grew up in.

We've just learned how to balance ourselves a little better so that we're happier way more of the time than not, and, you know, being happy is a radical and desirable act if you ask me.

What I've realized over the years is that I have some pretty good friends.

It seems like the chaos of this world is accelerating, but so is the beauty in the consciousness of more and more people.

I was a little self-centered gutter punk in the early 1980s and all I wanted to do was diss everybody.

I find it hard to meet the right woman as people assume I'm a certain type of person - which I'm not.

I like the idea of defying the convention of what it is to be in your 40s, or 50s, or 60s.

The fact my relationship with my son is so good makes me forgiving of my father and also appreciative.

We did that with people like Chris Rock, Woody Harrelson, and the environmentalist Julia Butterfly Hill.

I would have to say the person with whom I am most in love is definitely my son, Everly Bear. Although I'm his dad, I'm also his friend.

My days are whatever I want them to be,

Also, we're all actually different blood types and we have one represented by each guy in the band.

I don't even know what words to use to talk about the music industry anymore. But the business has changed a lot - the methods of releasing music.

You know I love pot, and I love beer, but I am totally sober, just because it completely stopped working for me.

If you want to get along with somebody, let them be right, and it will last longer.

I discovered surfing, which I absolutely fell in love with. That feels good and kind of keeps your body aligned, so does the salt water.

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

Four years into the life of my son, I realize I'm so in love with him and he's so in love with me that if I don't find that lifelong partner out there, it's okay.

In terms of having high hopes that the level of consciousness will get higher and higher, yeah.

I think people that have fear that, 'Oh if I have a kid I won't be able to do this and I won't be able to do that.' It's kind of the opposite. It really gives you energy. It makes people better.

I think I'm still figuring out how to be a little less selfish.

My father rebelled ferociously against his conservative upbringing where his father physically abused him.

What doesn't kill you only makes your book longer.

When I was younger, I used to hate Germany. I hated the country, the people, the language, the culture, everything! But over the years I've grown to really appreciate the German people.

We'll have these people hang out with us while we're doing our touring, and talk to them and let them speak their piece to the world.

You know, I like to climb trees and ride bikes and play.

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.

As a father now, I wouldn't do what my dad did, because it left me feeling emotionally unstable as a kid. But he didn't do the things he did out of selfishness or malice.

I think there is always going to be inspired music and there are always going to be inspired listeners and there is always going to be an inspired method of getting it from A to B.

I have a few friends that I think would go to bat for me no matter what. Flea is definitely one of them. Guy Oseary is one of them.

I know my dad is a big Internet freak, and he's been known to be a Wikileaker.

Now I can look back and say I actually like the upbringing I had and my father was very attentive and a great educator.

I didn't really get to Led Zeppelin until I was in my 20s.

I know whatever my father did, in his own way, he still loved me.

And I have a few friends that I think would go to bat for me no matter what. Flea is definitely one of them. Guy Oseary is one of them.

We're able to breathe in each other's space at this point, and it was never really like that before, even when we were hyper best friends.

My feeling is that what somebody like us does is much better expressed and conveyed and related to as a policy of attraction rather than promotion.

I wish to f--- that we were putting it out sooner, ... I'm so excited about it and I'm so ready for it to be part of the public consciousness. It's a lot different to ' By The Way '. There are some profoundly funky songs and then there are songs that are new for us and don't sound like anything.

We'll be releasing more in Spanish. We love the energy that we get out of Latin American audiences.

I'm very aware of the chemistry. It's something you can't take for granted. I'm very thankful for it and I recognise the power of its reality in all of our lives. Some people don't and it's a mistake not to because people throw away god-given special chemistry that's very rare, very hard to find.

I don't worry about new young bands. The bounty of life is infinite and so is music and so are opportunities.

Buddhism helps me to have a healthy relationship with my body and spirit.

I plan to surf more - learn the way of the wave.

The fact that I was a junkie for a long time is only one slice of my own personal pie, which is made up of a lot of different slices.

You instinctively know that nothing will ever be the same, and you have to carry that knowledge around with you like a huge weight. The next time you see your girl, you can’t look her straight in the eyes the same way you did for all those years.

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.

It's weird, I was such a survivor and so wanted to be a part of life while I was trying to snuff out the life that was inside of me. I had this duality of trying to kill myself with drugs, then eating really good food and exercising and going swimming and trying to be a part of life. I was always going back and forth on some level.

A rock star does not age!

The road is not a problem.

...whatever I ended up doing with my life,I wanted to people feel the way this music was making me feel.

I’m not a true vegan. I dabble in sustainable fish and dawdle in the consumption of eggs. Steak doesn’t speak to me, and tempeh is so-so. I’ll savor a solitary apricot that’s been kissed by my baby.

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

Nothing was working, and my friend was dead, and I didn't want to look at that.

Well, I get excited about music.

I had to sit with my senses. This clear, beautiful intuition took over. I knew exactly how I felt, and I wasn't confused or clouded or compromised. I realized that none of my feelings had diminished, but I might have to lose someone I truly loved. I didn't want to run away from Claire, but I knew drug addiction was strong enough that I had to be willing, if need be, to let go of the person I'd just fallen in love with.

I walked away a little disheartened, thinking, 'Oh well. I came a long way to meet the Wizard of Oz, but I guess I won't. Such is life.

It was because all we wanted was each other's constant love and attention and for no one else to receive that love and attention, which is a selfish and difficult place to be in a relationship. We were emotionally retarded, and that was the best we could do at the time.

That's a spiritual lifestyle, being willing to admit that you don't know everything and that you were wrong about some things. It's about making a list of all the people you've harmed, either emotionally or physically or financially, and going back and making amends. That's a spiritual lifestyle. It's not a fluffy ethereal concept.

She was probably the girl I loved the most of all my girlfriends, but also the toughest one to make things work out with. If I had put that much effort into any of my other relationships, I'd be married with five kids now.

A certain amount of volatility and drama can me healthy and keep things fun and interesting if you're willing at any moment during a fight to say, 'This means nothing. I love you, let's forget about it.

She wasn't about to go down that road herself, which was a testament to her spiritual awakening and her commitment to sanity. It was a real blessing that she didn't follow me, because oftentimes, people go out together and one comes back and the other doesn't. Or both of them never do.

It didn't matter if I got bitten by a dog or I ripped my pants on the fence post or I poked myself in the eye with a tree branch that I was crawling over, it was all about the shortcut. My whole life I took the shortcut, and I ended up lost.

Changing and inventing new things is great. That's what we like to do.

I have to laugh at myself.

Desecration is the smile on my face.

It was like the Wizard of Oz had spoken, and what he said was too ludicrous to take seriously.

I'm not a true vegan.

Once you've seen a solution to the disease that's tearing you apart, relapsing is never fun.

Just the kind of girl I liked—the weirdo in the bunch.

I think dying is the ultimate high.

My sobriety isn't up for discussion, but as for vices, I seem to hack away at them with my invisible machete from dawn till dusk. The vice of 'more' is an ongoing theme.

Your mouth was made to suck my kiss.

I didn't have to go all the way to India for spiritual enlightenment. The blue-collar spirituality of everyday life was right in front of me, it was in every nook and cranny if I wanted to seek it, but I had chosen to ignore it.

If that's what you're thinking, then don't even question it. Go let your freak flag fly, brother.

...for the first time in my life, a voice went off in my head:'You have no power over what happens in your life. Drugs dictate exactly what you're going to do. You've taken your hands off the steering wheel, and you're going wherever the drug world takes you.' That had never changed. The feeling would well up inside of me, and no matter how much I loved my girl or my band or my friends or my family, when that siren song 'Go get high now' started playing in my head, I was off.

The sad thing is, people don't want to believe that the person they're in love with is out of his mind, drinking and using, so if you give them even half an excuse, they're going to want to believe it.

When we get together to rehearse, we could write music together all day long - GOOD music.

I had to educate him that there was no such thing as writer's block, that writers write when they write, and when they don't, they don't.

We took off our clothes, and we were basically in a sphere of love and light and warmth, and the rest of the world disappeared. It was better than I ever could have dreamed, it was that thing I had been looking for, that love mixed with the rapture of sex.

I was starting to come to grips with the fact that I had created a lot of pain and suffering around me, not just within me.

When you realize that there's a name and a description for this condition that you thought was insanity, you've identified the problem, and now you can do something about it.

I stopped hating and started just being. My whole life, I had been the most defensive person you'd meet, unable to tolerate any criticism. But now I started listening and being.

Every time you empty your vessel of that energy, fresh new energy comes flooding in.

My work was done, so it was time to start digging my grave again.

I was like a clock that had exploded- my springs were hanging out, my hands were cockeyed, and my numbers were falling off.

You're not getting the b-level tunes. Our most recent producer, Danger Mouse, was quite sure about that. So you're getting the best of the best, the cream of the cream of what we have to offer.

My guys studied music from a young age and I did not so I think, like, adding the idiot to the table of very talented musicians gave us a unique rub.

The energy is still similar because I saw some old footage of us when we were in France that they'd dredged up out of God knows where and I was like, the energy is still there.

I'm impressed with a 90 year old woman who's still out and about.

All summer long; we'll be playing the festivals. We'll be Reading, we'll be Leeds, we'll be around.

We've put songs out on singles and weird little packages that only the real vinyl-philes care about.

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

This Life is More than Just a read through.

I don't take drugs nor drink since 2000 and I must say that I don't think about it anymore, although like every person that was addicted and has money - I know that this can lead to temptation.

Adolescence is such a fun time in your life, because you think you know it all, and you haven’t gotten to the point where you realize that you know almost nothing.

A rock star never gets old!

Having a moment of clarity was one thing; I'd had moments like that before. It had to be followed with a dedicated push of daily exercise. It's a trite axiom, but practice DOES make perfect. If you want to be a strong swimmer or an accomplished musician, you have to practice. It's the same with sobriety, though the stakes are higher. If you don't practice your program every day, you're putting yourself in a position where you could fly out of the orbit one more time.