Anthony Kiedis Quotes
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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 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.
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Now I can look back and say I actually like the upbringing I had and my father was very attentive and a great educator.
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Every time you empty your vessel of that energy, fresh new energy comes flooding in.
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My father rebelled ferociously against his conservative upbringing where his father physically abused him.
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I’m not a true vegan. I dabble in sustainable fish and dawdle in the consumption of eggs. Steak doesn’t speak to me, and tempeh is so-so. I’ll savor a solitary apricot that’s been kissed by my baby.
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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.
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Sometimes, out of really horrible things come really beautiful things.
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I'm impressed with a 90 year old woman who's still out and about.
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...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.
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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.
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I know I'm in the band and everything but sometimes I just have to rock out to the John Frusciante Experience.
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I inherited my father's insatiable desire to meet all the beautiful girls in the world.
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This Life is More than Just a read through.
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Time and distance have a way of playing tricks with your best intentions.
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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'm a crier - let me know if you need some tips. I could cry every day, in a good way.
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I never really thought in terms of the concept of being a rock star - being around people like that just seemed like normal day-in-the-life stuff to me. Those were just the surroundings I grew up in.
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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.
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Death by evaporation. May the saltwater wind that gets shot out of a barreling wave blow me away like an old puffy dandelion into the sky.
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Also, we're all actually different blood types and we have one represented by each guy in the band.
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I'm an artist and I get very attached to my own little ditties.
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Every true artist is at war with the world.
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We didn't think about it but we never wanted to sound like anybody else.