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I'll try not to let a day go by without making a song. I don't think I've created a lot of music.
Josh Klinghoffer Red Hot Chili Peppers -
Give her the continent and she wanted the hemisphere.
Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers
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When you realize that there's a name and a description for this condition that you thought was insanity, you've identified the problem, and now you can do something about it.
Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers -
Every true artist is at war with the world.
Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers -
I think I'm still figuring out how to be a little less selfish.
Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers -
I had not had any drugs for 5 years but then I relapsed again. I have also smoked nearly everything. Every day it was a battle to recover, which I fought for my son and myself.
Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers -
I don't take drugs nor drink since 2000 and I must say that I don't think about it anymore, although like every person that was addicted and has money - I know that this can lead to temptation.
Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers -
It was like the Wizard of Oz had spoken, and what he said was too ludicrous to take seriously.
Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers
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Playing along with records is key. And as far as equipment goes it has gotten so much more affordable and the drum sets are of great quality. I play Pearl; their Export Series is great for a beginner.
Chad Smith Red Hot Chili Peppers -
We took off our clothes, and we were basically in a sphere of love and light and warmth, and the rest of the world disappeared. It was better than I ever could have dreamed, it was that thing I had been looking for, that love mixed with the rapture of sex.
Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers -
Sometimes life's so much cooler when you just don't know any better and all the painful lessons have not hammered your head open yet.
Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers -
I am very sensitive about characters being annoying in movies.
Josh Klinghoffer Red Hot Chili Peppers -
Once you've seen a solution to the disease that's tearing you apart, relapsing is never fun.
Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers -
That's a spiritual lifestyle, being willing to admit that you don't know everything and that you were wrong about some things. It's about making a list of all the people you've harmed, either emotionally or physically or financially, and going back and making amends. That's a spiritual lifestyle. It's not a fluffy ethereal concept.
Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers
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It didn't matter if I got bitten by a dog or I ripped my pants on the fence post or I poked myself in the eye with a tree branch that I was crawling over, it was all about the shortcut. My whole life I took the shortcut, and I ended up lost.
Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers -
Writing music always happened for me in periods when I wasn't under the influence of mind-altering substance.
Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers -
Honestly, I'm really just a teddy bear.
Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers -
Nothing was working, and my friend was dead, and I didn't want to look at that.
Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers -
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.
Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers -
Buddhism helps me to have a healthy relationship with my body and spirit.
Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers
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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.
Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers -
Sometimes one of us will have a riff or a bass line from home but it really gels when we come together. We really have a strong special chemistry that we take advantage of when we get together.
Chad Smith Red Hot Chili Peppers -
I think dying is the ultimate high...
Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers -
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.
Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers