But I have been avoiding talking about what I'm doing now because it's frustrating for people to hear about things that aren't available yet.

Make sure you stay in touch with beauty instead of letting the ugliness of the world corrupt your soul

Making art is about accepting what’s going on around you and turning it into

What's gone will never come back, but it exists when you think of it.

I still love with all my heart anything that I have ever loved in my life.

That's what I spend most of my time doing, breathing a lot. I like air.

When the intellectual part of guitar playing overrides the spiritual, you don't get to extreme heights.

Even if my songs are a bit low-spirited, they make me happy. I become happy when I hear sad songs. When you sing about sad things in a beautiful way, the atmosphere turns upside down

Music is my friend, no matter where I go.

The imagination is the most real world that we know because we each know it first hand.

In the Chili Peppers I'm a part of that world in a pretty big world and that's just the way it is.

The first draft of anything is shit.

A new challenge keeps the brain kicking and the heart ticking.

Loving a person doesn’t make them who you desire

If I had to design a career for myself, I would have done comedy.

Kids can be a pain in the neck when they're not a lump in your throat.

Cloning looks like a degrading of parenthood and a perversion of the right relation between parents and children.

Sometimes we remember onlywhen we see the pass, and the pass is remember when our eyes are open

One bit in or out of focus makes the difference between our bodies being ourselves and our being part of a group. I want to melt the idea of specificity and blend individuality into the crowd.

I also think that filmmakers understand, we don't have to make twenty movies a year, we make four to six.

Look if you like, but you will have to leap.