Anthony Kiedis Quotes

I've got used to touring. If you make calculations of the nights spent in hotels in my life, multiplied by the tattoos I have for hundred.

I wish there were more good new bands that would light a fire and offer a little friendly competition that would be welcomed.

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.

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

The collective love for music and poetry and just the brotherhood of sound. And it's still kind of flowing through me and I attribute that to the team.

...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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

I think dying is the ultimate high...

As long as a person is breathing, there is hope for them.

The good news is that by the second year, those cravings were about as half as frequent, and by the third year, half as much again. I'm still a little bent, a little crooked, but all things crooked, I can't complain. After all those years of all kinds of abuse and crashing into trees at eighty miles an hour and jumping off buildings and living through overdoses and liver disease, I feel better now than I did ten years ago. I might have some scar tissue, but that's alright, I'm still making progress.

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

I've wanted to feel pleasure to the point of insanity. They call it getting high, because it's wanting to know that higher level, that godlike level. You want to touch the heavens, you want to feel glory and euphoria, but the trick is it takes work. You can't buy it, you can't get it on a street corner, you can't steal it or inject it or shove it up your ass, you have to earn it.

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.

I'm not a true vegan.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Once I opened my mind to the concept of a greater power, I never struggled with it. Everywhere I went, I felt and saw the existence of a creative intelligence in this universe, of a loving power larger than myself in nature, in people, everywhere.

The road is not a problem. It's not any more tempting. People don't come up with giant bags of drugs or gallons of alcohol and say, 'You've got to do this.' It happens to me more at home.

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.

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.

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

This Life is More than Just a read through.

When you start putting pen to paper, you see a side of your personal truth that doesn't otherwise reveal itself in conversation or thought.

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 would consider him definitely one of my very best friends and I know he feels the same about me. We have a lot of love and respect.

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.

You know what's the worst? Being a 16 year old girl who loves a famous Singer, not solely for his looks, but because you truly believe he is talented and devoted and you agree deeply with his message. Because no matter how intelligently and fully you can express that, people will assume you're just a silly teenager who thinks a famous guy is cute.

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

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

Sometimes, out of really horrible things come really beautiful things.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

I never felt like dying was a good idea.

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...