I'm not interested in forcing my music on people, and that's what the whole music industry nowadays is based on is forcing stations to play it, forcing people to listen to it.

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.

No matter how much someone else loves you or you love other people, if you don’t love yourself then it can never be enough.

Our challenge is not to let life mold us or break us

If communication is lost everything is lost in a relationship.

Happiness is what happens when your thoughts and beliefs are constantly working in your favor.

Christmas is the antithesis of Thanksgiving. Christmas is pretty much a man-made holiday.

As history proves abundantly, mathematical achievement, whatever its intrinsic worth, is the most enduring of all.

Beauty is but the sensible image of the infinite. Like truth and justice, it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law, it is a companion of the soul.

I always find the most depressing stuff most interesting.

It goes against the American storytelling grain to have someone in a situation he can't get out of, but I think this is very usual in life.

It usually takes two people to make one of them angry.