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

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.

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 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.

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

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

It is difficult to recognize true love, the one which you feel for the other person, when for years the girls, even more than one per night, after concerts would sneak in our beds and were willing to do everything - group sex also - just to stay with Anthony Kiedis and the Red Hot.