I think the feelings in my music were suggested to me before I even had the ability to play music.

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.

Doing things God’s way is always a matter of the heart.

The worst way to drown is in mainstream.

Water is life's matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.

I was kind of a wild child. I wasn't taught the niceties of life.

There can be no great love without exclusivity.

I believe very firmly in the principle of free agency - people making their own decisions and doing what they think is right.

And all the countries seemed the same, That I don't see myself there, And I don't see myself here.

We as a church don't have a mission. The mission has a Church.

That first responsibility as a school board member - meals for latch-key children - was absolutely critical in my understanding of the extraordinary problems of poverty.

I'm not trying to be in your face and take a picture that is like a journalistic kind of image. I got interested in a kind of complicated, compiled, visual field.