Writing music always happened for me in periods when I wasn't under the influence of mind-altering substance.

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.

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."

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

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.

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.