I wanted all my solos to be something you could sing along with

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.

A guy wants a classy girl who is smart and has goals - someone that he wouldn't be afraid to bring home to his parents.

I always got great respect as a bass player.

As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeches, whether they be wise or foolish.

It was Nick's voice Nick's arms. He turned me on my back and swam with me, pulling me to the bank.

There is a great deal of political pressure to only talk about abstinence, and to deny support for condoms and education on using them. This policy will lead to the unnecessary deaths of many people.

No society is complete without some victim, a creature to pity, to jeer at, to scorn or to protect.

Beggars can't be choosers.

Grace must find expression in life, otherwise it is not grace.

At my age, I don’t need to be a sexy bundle of muscles, thank you very much.

Hard labor and good intentions are not sufficient to carry a man through to success.