Anthony Kiedis Quotes

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

I had not had any drugs for 5 years but then I relapsed again. I have also smoked nearly everything. Every day it was a battle to recover, which I fought for my son and myself.

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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."

I knew there was never anyone to blame when people get into drugs. They're always responsible for their own behavior, and it's not the dealer, it's not the friend, it's not the bad influence, it's not the childhood.

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

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.

I know I'm in the band and everything but sometimes I just have to rock out to the John Frusciante Experience.

We didn't think about it but we never wanted to sound like anybody else.

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

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.

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.

Honestly, I'm really just a teddy bear.

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

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.

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.

I'm probably not long-term-relationship material for now.

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

In the middle of the last century there was a reason to go to war. This time around the war was a really bad idea and I think the only people that benefited from it were Halliburton and people that made money from it, but that's not an excuse to have a war. Killing American kids so Halliburton can make money is not a righteous reason to go to war.

A rock star never gets old!

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.

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

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

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.

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

Give her the continent and she wanted the hemisphere.

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.

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.

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

Why should we think nudity is such a revolting thing in a land where there is so much violence and corruption and racism and hatred? Nudity seems like a welcome relief from all the bullshit in life.

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.

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.

I have to laugh at myself.

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

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

My days are whatever I want them to be. I don't have to go worry about chasing some chemical to make me feel OK for a minute, and then make me feel worse.

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.

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.

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.

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

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