I never feel like I'm running out of ideas, because it is clear to me - music is infinite

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.

In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself.

I closed my eyes, tried to get as far away from myself as I could.

Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.

Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate.

Complaining not only ruins everybody else's day, it ruins the complainer's day, too. The more we complain, the more unhappy we get.

If I had my way, I'd always be onstage. But I won't always be able to be onstage.

There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love - every man works his oar voluntarily!

If you sing honestly and sincerely to kids, they will respond with all their hearts.

Education must not simply teach work-it must teach life.

Night's candles have burned out, and jocund day stands tiptoe on the misty mountaintops." Hope tinged with melancholy - like life.