Red Hot Chili Peppers Quotes
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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.
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It was like the Wizard of Oz had spoken, and what he said was too ludicrous to take seriously.
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The good news is that by the second year, those cravings were about as half as frequent, and by the third year, half as much again. I'm still a little bent, a little crooked, but all things crooked, I can't complain. After all those years of all kinds of abuse and crashing into trees at eighty miles an hour and jumping off buildings and living through overdoses and liver disease, I feel better now than I did ten years ago. I might have some scar tissue, but that's alright, I'm still making progress.
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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.
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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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As a father now, I wouldn't do what my dad did, because it left me feeling emotionally unstable as a kid. But he didn't do the things he did out of selfishness or malice.
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I think I'm still figuring out how to be a little less selfish.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Give her the continent and she wanted the hemisphere.
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Once you've seen a solution to the disease that's tearing you apart, relapsing is never fun.
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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.
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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.
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I am very sensitive about characters being annoying in movies.
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Honestly, I'm really just a teddy bear.
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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.
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Buddhism helps me to have a healthy relationship with my body and spirit.
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I think dying is the ultimate high...
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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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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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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 think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction.
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Writing music always happened for me in periods when I wasn't under the influence of mind-altering substance.