I'm going through a phase where I'm really accomplishing a lot of things and in that is everything I've learned.

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.

Our mind is a crazy nightclub of cacophonous sound filled with strange images and one-night stands: our mind tells us lonely, loveless tales that leave us frightened but really have no lasting power

A curt voice echoed in Nathaniel’s head, "Prep for impact. This is going to hurt.

I have a different approach. I don't file lawsuits because I really don't care.

Unspoken feelings are unforgettable.

In order to have good health care you need a patient and you need a health care provider.

A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.

Black culture has been a huge influence in my life.

Art should be created for life, not for the museum

The slothful are always ready to engage in idle talk of what will be done tomorrow, and every day after.

Economic prosperity is not so much a material problem; it is, first of all, an intellectual, spiritual, and moral problem.