Everything's very perfectly balanced; for all the horrible things in the world there's lots of good things.

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.

Don't you know girls have to fool people every day of their lives if they want to get anywhere?

But the heaviest things, I think, are the secrets. They can drown you if you let them.

Will is guided by wisdom. Wisdom comes from introspection, looking inside yourself, probing, studying the wisdom of the teachers, the masters and bringing that into your mind.

I've had a very positive experience in LA in the comedy world and found everyone to be very nice and welcoming. It's been really fun.

I'm a Christian-libertarian-environmentalist-capitalist-lunatic. It's a humorous way for me to describe that I'm not stereotypical.

A true principle makes decisions clear even under the most confusing and challenging circumstances.

Objects are held by the backgrounds that are cut into them.

Law students have taken over Hollywood. To them it's all about making money. They know people want to see what they've seen before. Also, remakes are places to showcase the new stars of tomorrow

Success is found balanced between optimism and realism, where it is unhindered by the weight of pessimism.

I must say that, on the whole, I prefer fiction to poetry.