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The only thing I've ever wanted to do is really make people happy, offer some sort of positivity with music that I've written. The Chili Peppers do that for people. They're already established. I still want something that came out of me, and out of my heart.
Josh Klinghoffer Red Hot Chili Peppers -
We always feel pretty creative as far as writing songs. We write them together; we just get in a room, or on occasion in Flea's garage. We just sort of improvise, like jazz musicians.
Chad Smith Red Hot Chili Peppers
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In some of the L.A. clubs, people can act too cool to get into your music. That can get to be a bit much.
Chad Smith Red Hot Chili Peppers -
...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.
Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers -
Now I can look back and say I actually like the upbringing I had and my father was very attentive and a great educator.
Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers -
I plan to surf more - learn the way of the wave.
Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers -
'Fast Times At Ridgemont High' is one of my favorite movies; it's a film that's a human comedy, it's a drama, and the characters all, in a way, fit the teenage archetypes, but they don't become stereotypes because each of the actors brought their own presence and their own personality to the screen.
Josh Klinghoffer Red Hot Chili Peppers -
I've got used to touring. If you make calculations of the nights spent in hotels in my life, multiplied by the tattoos I have for hundred.
Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers
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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.
Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers -
I don't think there should be a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, period.
Josh Klinghoffer Red Hot Chili Peppers -
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.
Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers -
You can't have the word 'fantasy' or 'fantastical' without a contrast. It has to stem from a grounded experience.
Josh Klinghoffer Red Hot Chili Peppers -
Family time is really important to me.
Chad Smith Red Hot Chili Peppers -
Sometimes, out of really horrible things come really beautiful things.
Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers
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Time and distance have a way of playing tricks with your best intentions.
Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers -
Life seems terrible and disappointing, so you need to find something you need to make you stick around. Music that makes me happiest is the saddest music, with the most emotional feel.
Josh Klinghoffer Red Hot Chili Peppers -
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.
Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers -
I'm a crier - let me know if you need some tips. I could cry every day, in a good way.
Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers -
My father rebelled ferociously against his conservative upbringing where his father physically abused him.
Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers -
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.
Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers
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We didn't think about it but we never wanted to sound like anybody else.
Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers -
I always like to say that the music I'd like to make is somewhere between Pan Sonic and Scott Walker. But I don't sing anything like Scott Walker.
Josh Klinghoffer Red Hot Chili Peppers -
I know I'm in the band and everything but sometimes I just have to rock out to the John Frusciante Experience.
Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers -
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.
Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers