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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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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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Nothing was working, and my friend was dead, and I didn't want to look at that.
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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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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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All summer long; we'll be playing the festivals. We'll be Reading, we'll be Leeds, we'll be around.
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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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Every true artist is at war with the world.
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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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Give her the continent and she wanted the hemisphere.
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We didn't think about it but we never wanted to sound like anybody else.
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Honestly, I'm really just a teddy bear.
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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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There was an uncommon array of people in there [rehab] with me, and I became friends with all of them. You recognize the possibility of your own demise in the lives of these other people. You're doing the same thing they are, but you can't see it in yourself. However, you start seeing all of these tragedies and potential miracles in other people. It's a real eye- and heart-opening situation.
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The fact my relationship with my son is so good makes me forgiving of my father and also appreciative.
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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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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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What doesn't kill you only makes your book longer.
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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'm still a little bent, a little crooked, but all things considered, I can't complain.
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A rock star never gets old!
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Personally, I am stuck with one foot in the past and one foot in the present.
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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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We used to fight to the death but we tried the experiment, rolled the dice and like we got.
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