Anthony Kiedis Quotes
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.
I think there is always going to be inspired music and there are always going to be inspired listeners and there is always going to be an inspired method of getting it from A to B.
It takes away a lot of the thrill of killing yourself when people are looking for you and you're disappointing them, because it is a lot of fun when you're out there killing yourself.
I wish there were more good new bands that would light a fire and offer a little friendly competition that would be welcomed.
I've got used to touring. If you make calculations of the nights spent in hotels in my life, multiplied by the tattoos I have for hundred.
I like the idea of defying the convention of what it is to be in your 40s, or 50s, or 60s.
I inherited my father's insatiable desire to meet all the beautiful girls in the world.
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.
In terms of having high hopes that the level of consciousness will get higher and higher, yeah.
My sobriety isn't up for discussion, but as for vices, I seem to hack away at them with my invisible machete from dawn till dusk. The vice of 'more' is an ongoing theme.
We'll have these people hang out with us while we're doing our touring, and talk to them and let them speak their piece to the world.
The energy is still similar because I saw some old footage of us when we were in France that they'd dredged up out of God knows where and I was like, the energy is still there.
Paul McCartney's dad told him that when he was a kid. "Son, play the piano and when you go to parties, the girls will come to you."
Every time you empty your vessel of that energy, fresh new energy comes flooding in.
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.
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.
When I was younger, I used to hate Germany. I hated the country, the people, the language, the culture, everything! But over the years I've grown to really appreciate the German people.
I find it hard to meet the right woman as people assume I'm a certain type of person - which I'm not.
It was like the Wizard of Oz had spoken, and what he said was too ludicrous to take seriously.
Nothing was working, and my friend was dead, and I didn't want to look at that.
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.
All summer long; we'll be playing the festivals. We'll be Reading, we'll be Leeds, we'll be around.
When we get together to rehearse, we could write music together all day long - GOOD music.
We've put songs out on singles and weird little packages that only the real vinyl-philes care about.
I walked away a little disheartened, thinking, 'Oh well. I came a long way to meet the Wizard of Oz, but I guess I won't. Such is life.
I was a little self-centered gutter punk in the early 1980s and all I wanted to do was diss everybody.
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.
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.
...whatever I ended up doing with my life,I wanted to people feel the way this music was making me feel.
Once you've seen a solution to the disease that's tearing you apart, relapsing is never fun.
