Maybe what I do isn't going to be acknowledged by people, but that's me. It's my nature to do things that are weirder and less understood and that was a path I needed to take

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.

It is extraordinary how the human mind sees what it anticipates and is blind to anything that could not be dreamed of.

I loathe it when they [English teachers] are bullied by no-nothing parents or cowardly school boards.

The things we worry about the most are the hints we trust God with the least.

I swear to god; happiness is the best makeup.

you can die of the wrong thought as quick as of a bullet.

Ideas are transplanted by splitting, thoughts by sprouting.

Practice really hearing what people say. Do your best to get inside their mind.

I'd like to give zero out capital gains tax and zero out the dividends tax, zero out alternative minimum tax, and zero out the death tax.

What I try to push and promote is peace through the whole music industry.

When I have won a victory I do not repeat my tactics but respond to circumstances in an infinite variety of ways.