I've been in pain hope it doesn't show I've been insane well the time is slow

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.

Music rots when it gets too far from the dance. Poetry atrophies when it gets too far from music.

The bigger the bricks critics throw at you the bigger the palace you are going to build.

Want a reliable road to emotional and spiritual suicide? Spend your life trying to fit in.

It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.

For me, the '60s in the automotive industry was awesome. The cars are heavy, huge, rolling works of art.

Moderation in people who are contented comes from that calm that good fortune lends to their spirit.

Blast Cecil!” said Eldric. “You have my permission,” I said.

I am weary of your quarrels, Weary of your wars and bloodshed, Weary of your prayers for vengeance, Of your wranglings and dissensions

Ours has not been unadulterated nonviolence in thought, word and deed.

The Absolute can never be thought of.