In the Chili Peppers I'm a part of that world in a pretty big world and that's just the way it is.

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.

You just never know when somebodys gonna die. It could happen at any moment so youve got to really treat everybody that way. Just really let everybody know how you feel about them.

There are only two problems in my life. The political ones are insoluble and the economic ones are incomprehensible.

It is a bad idea to live too long. Few carry it off well.

I was afraid to write Fear of Flying ergo I had to write it. I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it then I must do it.

I found I wasn't asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.

Beloved, let us live so well our work shall still be better for our love, and still our love be sweeter for our work.

It's interesting to fantasize having a man sink his teeth into your neck for sustenance, knowing that it isn't going to be terribly painful but rather very exciting

Above all, I regret that scientific experiments-some of them mine-should have produced such a terrible weapon as the hydrogen bomb. Regret, with all my soul, but not guilt.

I also started to eat sensibly. The weight just dropped off.

It was up to him to pay back to the world in beauty and caring what Leslie had loaned him in vision and strength.

We know the only fish that goes with the flow is a dead fish.