Anthony Kiedis
Just the kind of girl I liked—the weirdo in the bunch.Collection: Girl
Time and distance have a way of playing tricks with your best intentions.Collection: Distance
We didn't think about it but we never wanted to sound like anybody else.Collection: Thinking
Once I opened my mind to the concept of a greater power, I never struggled with it. Everywhere I went, I felt and saw the existence of a creative intelligence in this universe, of a loving power larger than myself in nature, in people, everywhere.Collection: People
Every time you empty your vessel of that energy, fresh new energy comes flooding in.Collection: Energy
My days are whatever I want them to be. I don't have to go worry about chasing some chemical to make me feel OK for a minute, and then make me feel worse.Collection: Want
There was an uncommon array of people in there [rehab] with me, and I became friends with all of them. You recognize the possibility of your own demise in the lives of these other people. You're doing the same thing they are, but you can't see it in yourself. However, you start seeing all of these tragedies and potential miracles in other people. It's a real eye- and heart-opening situation.Collection: Real
Why should we think nudity is such a revolting thing in a land where there is so much violence and corruption and racism and hatred? Nudity seems like a welcome relief from all the bullshit in life.Collection: Thinking
I'm very aware of the chemistry. It's something you can't take for granted. I'm very thankful for it and I recognise the power of its reality in all of our lives. Some people don't and it's a mistake not to because people throw away god-given special chemistry that's very rare, very hard to find.Collection: Mistake
I'm a crier - let me know if you need some tips. I could cry every day, in a good way.Collection: Way
I never felt like dying was a good idea.Collection: Ideas
I had not had any drugs for 5 years but then I relapsed again. I have also smoked nearly everything. Every day it was a battle to recover, which I fought for my son and myself.Collection: Son
I stopped hating and started just being. My whole life, I had been the most defensive person you'd meet, unable to tolerate any criticism. But now I started listening and being.Collection: Hate
Changing and inventing new things is great. That's what we like to do.Collection: Inventing
Death by evaporation. May the saltwater wind that gets shot out of a barreling wave blow me away like an old puffy dandelion into the sky.Collection: Blow
The road is not a problem. It's not any more tempting. People don't come up with giant bags of drugs or gallons of alcohol and say, 'You've got to do this.' It happens to me more at home.Collection: Problem
She was probably the girl I loved the most of all my girlfriends, but also the toughest one to make things work out with. If I had put that much effort into any of my other relationships, I'd be married with five kids now.Collection: Girl
To be 26 years old and lose your left heart ventricle was probably the most dramatic thing that's ever happened to me in my life...Collection: Heart
A certain amount of volatility and drama can me healthy and keep things fun and interesting if you're willing at any moment during a fight to say, 'This means nothing. I love you, let's forget about it.Collection: Fun
Desecration is the smile on my face.Collection: Faces
I'm impressed with a 90 year old woman who's still out and about.Collection: Years
I'm still a little bent, a little crooked, but all things considered, I can't complain.Collection: Complaining
I had to sit with my senses. This clear, beautiful intuition took over. I knew exactly how I felt, and I wasn't confused or clouded or compromised. I realized that none of my feelings had diminished, but I might have to lose someone I truly loved. I didn't want to run away from Claire, but I knew drug addiction was strong enough that I had to be willing, if need be, to let go of the person I'd just fallen in love with.Collection: Beautiful
Buddhism helps me to have a healthy relationship with my body and spirit.Collection: Buddhism
She wasn't about to go down that road herself, which was a testament to her spiritual awakening and her commitment to sanity. It was a real blessing that she didn't follow me, because oftentimes, people go out together and one comes back and the other doesn't. Or both of them never do.Collection: Spiritual
I know I'm in the band and everything but sometimes I just have to rock out to the John Frusciante Experience.Collection: Rocks
The fact that I was a junkie for a long time is only one slice of my own personal pie, which is made up of a lot of different slices.Collection: Pie
I would consider him definitely one of my very best friends and I know he feels the same about me. We have a lot of love and respect.Collection: Love And Respect
A rock star never gets old!Collection: Stars
My guys studied music from a young age and I did not so I think, like, adding the idiot to the table of very talented musicians gave us a unique rub.Collection: Unique
It was because all we wanted was each other's constant love and attention and for no one else to receive that love and attention, which is a selfish and difficult place to be in a relationship. We were emotionally retarded, and that was the best we could do at the time.Collection: Selfish
When you start putting pen to paper, you see a side of your personal truth that doesn't otherwise reveal itself in conversation or thought.Collection: Paper
You instinctively know that nothing will ever be the same, and you have to carry that knowledge around with you like a huge weight. The next time you see your girl, you can’t look her straight in the eyes the same way you did for all those years.Collection: Girl
I don't worry about new young bands. The bounty of life is infinite and so is music and so are opportunities.Collection: Opportunity
I was like a clock that had exploded- my springs were hanging out, my hands were cockeyed, and my numbers were falling off.Collection: Spring
I knew there was never anyone to blame when people get into drugs. They're always responsible for their own behavior, and it's not the dealer, it's not the friend, it's not the bad influence, it's not the childhood.Collection: People
Honestly, I'm really just a teddy bear.Collection: Bears
When I looked into her eyes, I saw an invisible spirit of something that I already loved.Collection: Eye
The good news is that by the second year, those cravings were about as half as frequent, and by the third year, half as much again. I'm still a little bent, a little crooked, but all things crooked, I can't complain. After all those years of all kinds of abuse and crashing into trees at eighty miles an hour and jumping off buildings and living through overdoses and liver disease, I feel better now than I did ten years ago. I might have some scar tissue, but that's alright, I'm still making progress.Collection: Feel Better
That's a spiritual lifestyle, being willing to admit that you don't know everything and that you were wrong about some things. It's about making a list of all the people you've harmed, either emotionally or physically or financially, and going back and making amends. That's a spiritual lifestyle. It's not a fluffy ethereal concept.Collection: Spiritual
This Life is More than Just a read through.Collection: Philosophy
I had seen these transformations, people who had lost their will to live, coming back from their zombie states and radiating a new life force from their eyes.Collection: Eye
Music itself was color-blind but the media and the radio stations segregate it based on their perceptions of the artists.Collection: Artist
Give her the continent and she wanted the hemisphere.Collection: Giving
Having a moment of clarity was one thing; I'd had moments like that before. It had to be followed with a dedicated push of daily exercise. It's a trite axiom, but practice DOES make perfect. If you want to be a strong swimmer or an accomplished musician, you have to practice. It's the same with sobriety, though the stakes are higher. If you don't practice your program every day, you're putting yourself in a position where you could fly out of the orbit one more time.Collection: Strong
You're not getting the b-level tunes. Our most recent producer, Danger Mouse, was quite sure about that. So you're getting the best of the best, the cream of the cream of what we have to offer.Collection: Tunes
We used to fight to the death but we tried the experiment, rolled the dice and like we got.Collection: Fighting