Anthony Kiedis Quotes
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I plan to surf more - learn the way of the wave.
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Sometimes, out of really horrible things come really beautiful things.
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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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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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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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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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My father rebelled ferociously against his conservative upbringing where his father physically abused him.
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I'm impressed with a 90 year old woman who's still out and about.
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I inherited my father's insatiable desire to meet all the beautiful girls in the world.
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Time and distance have a way of playing tricks with your best intentions.
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Every time you empty your vessel of that energy, fresh new energy comes flooding in.
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This Life is More than Just a read through.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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We didn't think about it but we never wanted to sound like anybody else.
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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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I wish there were more good new bands that would light a fire and offer a little friendly competition that would be welcomed.
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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.
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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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It takes away a lot of the thrill of killing yourself when people are looking for you and you're disappointing them, because it is a lot of fun when you're out there killing yourself.