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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 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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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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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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Personally, I am stuck with one foot in the past and one foot in the present.
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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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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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I'm still a little bent, a little crooked, but all things considered, I can't complain.
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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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You know, I like to climb trees and ride bikes and play.
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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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We used to fight to the death but we tried the experiment, rolled the dice and like we got.
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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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A rock star never gets old!
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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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...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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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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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 have to laugh at myself.
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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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What doesn't kill you only makes your book longer.