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If you live a rebellious lifestyle, then you rebel against things because they go against your ideals and the integrity of who you are as a person.
Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers -
You know I love pot, and I love beer, but I am totally sober, just because it completely stopped working for me. (Interview Magazine 2000).
Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers
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Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em,And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum.And the great fleas themselves, in turn, have greater fleas to go on;While these again have greater still, and greater still, and so on.
Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers -
My whole musical life has been an educational process, and I'm just furthering my education and filling in the blanks. There's stuff that I want to know that I don't know.
Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers -
Kids deserve arts, and it's just as important as science, math, history, English or athletics.
Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers -
I've always kind of been an in-the-moment kind of person. I don't think that far in advance or have any idea what's around the next corner.
Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers -
With acting, I always feel conscious of what I'm doing.
Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers -
I'm always put in the unfortunate position of asking people to donate money and people I know in bands to play benefit concerts and all this stuff.
Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
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When I looked into her eyes, I saw an invisible spirit of something that I already loved.
Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers -
I never really had the intention of being a rock 'n' roller. It's just that all of my best friends were great musicians and they felt sorry for me so they had me. (Much Music 1991).
Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers -
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.
Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers -
Bands develop their own weird ways of doing things.
Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers -
Steven Adler and I played football in the street when we were 12. I remember rehearsing in my bedroom with my first band, and some kid climbed over the fence of my backyard and peeked his head in the window to see who was rocking. It was Slash.
Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers -
Changing and inventing new things is great. That's what we like to do. (Australia, 2002).
Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers
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I grew up being terrified of my parents, particularly my father figures.
Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers -
I like the idea of acting. Of all these things I've done, sometimes I think I've done well, and sometimes I think I didn't do well, but they are more cameos, and I come in and be crazy.
Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers -
I started playing trumpet when I was 11 years old. All I wanted to be was a jazz trumpet player when I grew up.
Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers -
If you want to get along with somebody, let them be right, and it will last longer.
Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers -
I'm a performer and have managed to get my performing into the mainstream consciousness of the world, I guess.
Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers -
I find it hard to meet the right woman as people assume I'm a certain type of person - which I'm not.
Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers
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I knew there was never anyone to blame when people get into drugs. They're always responsible for their own behavior, and it's not the dealer, and it's not the friend, it's not the childhood. (Scar Tissue, 2004).
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After running for a while, things really start to open up in your body. I felt like I'd tapped into parts of my body that I hadn't before. I let things in the universe flow through me that opened me up in a really cool way.
Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers -
Before every show, we get into a circle, hold hands, and someone makes a speech. Most bands are too cool for that.
Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers -
When I first heard about Twittering, I thought it was the most disgusting thing I'd ever heard of in my life. It's like the devil: the idea that your personal life is there for everybody.
Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers