Anthony Kiedis Quotes
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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.
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I don't even know what words to use to talk about the music industry anymore. But the business has changed a lot - the methods of releasing music.
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I didn't have to go all the way to India for spiritual enlightenment. The blue-collar spirituality of everyday life was right in front of me, it was in every nook and cranny if I wanted to seek it, but I had chosen to ignore it.
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The sad thing is, people don't want to believe that the person they're in love with is out of his mind, drinking and using, so if you give them even half an excuse, they're going to want to believe it.
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Personally, I am stuck with one foot in the past and one foot in the present.
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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.
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We've just learned how to balance ourselves a little better so that we're happier way more of the time than not, and, you know, being happy is a radical and desirable act if you ask me.
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Music itself was color-blind but the media and the radio stations segregate it based on their perceptions of the artists.
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It seems like the chaos of this world is accelerating, but so is the beauty in the consciousness of more and more people.
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Why should we think nudity is such a revolting thing in a land where there is so much violence and corruption and racism and hatred? Nudity seems like a welcome relief from all the bullshit in life.
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I'm still a little bent, a little crooked, but all things considered, I can't complain.
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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...
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You know, I like to climb trees and ride bikes and play.
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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.
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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.
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A rock star never gets old!
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We used to fight to the death but we tried the experiment, rolled the dice and like we got.
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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.
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...whatever I ended up doing with my life,I wanted to people feel the way this music was making me feel.
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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.
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A certain amount of volatility and drama can me healthy and keep things fun and interesting if you're willing at any moment during a fight to say, 'This means nothing. I love you, let's forget about it.
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It was because all we wanted was each other's constant love and attention and for no one else to receive that love and attention, which is a selfish and difficult place to be in a relationship. We were emotionally retarded, and that was the best we could do at the time.
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What doesn't kill you only makes your book longer.
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The fact my relationship with my son is so good makes me forgiving of my father and also appreciative.