So I use a tape recorder a lot to record ideas.

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.

Madmen, criminals, and rapists! Isn’t it fantastic? All the romantic proposals I’ve ever got from anybody. Somebody up there has an extremely dark sense of humour.

I would appeal to Philip she said but to Philip sober.

The gods at will can shape a gladder strain, and from the lamentations at the graveside, a song of triumph may arise.

A lot of people would say 'sexy' is about the body. But to me, 'sexy' is a woman with confidence. I admire women who have very little fear.

A scene can be created when people are coming together. Either to shop or to hang out.

There are two kinds of people in the world: Johnny Von Neumann and the rest of us.

I loved 'Junebug.' It was one of my favorite films, my favorite type of film.

My worst fashion faux pas: probably orange shoes with white pants. I thought I looked spectacular.

If Trump takes an aggressive anti-Iranian stand, I suspect it will complicate his relations with Russia; how much so, depends on what else Trump does, particularly about participation in NATO.

I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didnt want to see my kids do the same thing