Anthony Kiedis Quotes
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I never felt like dying was a good idea.
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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.
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I don't worry about new young bands. The bounty of life is infinite and so is music and so are opportunities.
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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.
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Just the kind of girl I liked—the weirdo in the bunch.
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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.
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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.(Oct, 1994 interview).
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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.
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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.
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Writing music always happened for me in periods when I wasn't under the influence of mind-altering substance.
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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.
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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.
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My work was done, so it was time to start digging my grave again.
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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.
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I know whatever my father did, in his own way, he still loved me.
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Even as the words came out of my mouth, my heart was dying a million deaths.
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Music that I really love and believe in and think is extraordinarily honest and beautiful doesn't always become popular. (Oct, 1994 interview).
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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.
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I inherited my father's insatiable desire to meet all the beautiful girls in the world.
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I've been vegetarian since the 80s and, lately, even vegan. And I once happened to witness the slaughter of a cow. What atrocity must undergo an animal to satisfy the appetite of those fat men who eat hamburgers!
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What I've realized over the years is that I have some pretty good friends.
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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.
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I like the idea of defying the convention of what it is to be in your 40s, or 50s, or 60s.
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My father rebelled ferociously against his conservative upbringing where his father physically abused him.