For me it's important to be in balance. To not let fear get in the way of things, to not worry so much about protecting yourself all the time.

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.

I believe in walking out of a museum before the paintings you've seen begin to run together. How else can you carry anything away with you in your mind's eye?

A film is a petrified fountain of thought.

I pity anyone who can't laugh. There must be something wrong with their religion or their lives. The devil can't laugh.

I want to go to Australia so bad, do comedy there, and see the people there. It's a great country. I have friends that are Australian that have told me all about it. I want to do comedy there.

To mention it was to ask a favor and that as you were too generous, and as for her to ask was always to have, she wouldn't

I figured if Allah had wanted us up that early, He wouldn't have invented noon.

I learned to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of nature, rather than a member of society.

What I'd like to be above all is a writer.

Kindness is a highly underrated quality.

If the will remains in protest, it stays dependent on that which it is protesting against.