I don’t pay attention to the world. I just have the art I like and the music I like and for me that’s the whole world

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.

Conservatism is a hard choice for a society that has become accustomed to big government and big entitlements promoted by liberals.

That is relinquishing control in a culture that prioritizes control and doing what you need to do in order to advance yourself.

I write my novels personally, desperately and non-negligently. When I write my novels, I think about my novels only, and never do other works.

My method is simple: not to bother about poetry. It must come of its own accord. Merely whispering its name drives it away.

The evil of infatuation is illustrated by the drunkard.

Economic control is not merely control of a sector of human life that can be separated from the rest; it is the control of the means for all our ends.

The liberal intelligentsia has allowed its party to become a captive of corporate interests.

Nature is methodical, and doeth her work well. Time is never to be hurried.

Asking God for a specific thing will amount to limiting God to a specific answer.

You exist! Be ambitious!