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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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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.
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Personally, I am stuck with one foot in the past and one foot in the present.
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I think people that have fear that, 'Oh if I have a kid I won't be able to do this and I won't be able to do that.' It's kind of the opposite. It really gives you energy. It makes people better.
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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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To be 26 years old and lose your left heart ventricle was probably the most dramatic thing that's ever happened to me in my life...
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Why should we think nudity is such a revolting thing in a land where there is so much violence and corruption and racism and hatred? Nudity seems like a welcome relief from all the bullshit in life.
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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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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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You know, I like to climb trees and ride bikes and play.
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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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The road is not a problem. It's not any more tempting. People don't come up with giant bags of drugs or gallons of alcohol and say, 'You've got to do this.' It happens to me more at home.
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A rock star never gets old!
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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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I've been vegetarian since the 80s and, lately, even vegan. And I once happened to witness the slaughter of a cow. What atrocity must undergo an animal to satisfy the appetite of those fat men who eat hamburgers!
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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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...whatever I ended up doing with my life,I wanted to people feel the way this music was making me feel.
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Four years into the life of my son, I realize I'm so in love with him and he's so in love with me that if I don't find that lifelong partner out there, it's okay.
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I had to educate him that there was no such thing as writer's block, that writers write when they write, and when they don't, they don't.
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What doesn't kill you only makes your book longer.
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A rock star does not age!
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I'm probably not long-term-relationship material for now.
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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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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.