Well, I don't need protection One life begins, another dies Bad timing I won't last

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 leader is someone who creates better ways of doing things and better ways are new and comfortable ways.

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Whenever there is stillness there is the still small voice, God's speaking from the whirlwind, nature's old song, and dance.

I am determined to go through the horror of this world.

Happiness and high come to you when you choose to live your life consistent with your highest values and your deepest convictions.

If the Best is yet to come, the Present will blend with it Beautifully.

What would you like?" "A skinny decaf latte." This is a ridiculous form of coffee, but I did not point it out.

When you're through with your cat, you can't throw it in the trash.

Show true cost of FICA-double what is shown on paychecks.

It's not just a sunset; it's a moonrise too.