Quotes from John Frusciante

Sometimes it takes just living your life a certain way to be able to open yourself to the rhythm of the cosmos.

When the intellectual part of guitar playing overrides the spiritual, you don't get to extreme heights.

Because I'm pure inside, the music that comes out of me is a life-giving thing. Like water.

You know this moment in time Is all my life Every day is each day that's passed Every person alive is everyone's who's died

But I have been avoiding talking about what I'm doing now because it's frustrating for people to hear about things that aren't available yet.

I would say a lot of the emotion in what I do is a sort of a thankfulness for those energies being around, because there's been points in my life when they weren't around, and it's a real sort of miserable existence.

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

Well, I don't even know how to drive in this life, so I'm pretty far from ever having the life of being a stuntdouble. I liked- I had an Evil Knievel doll when i was a kid, that's about it!

I don't want to be on the radio. I don't want to be on Mtv.

Lose yourself in the far off worlds that are right under your feet. Switch below with above all the way up into infinity. We should be thankful who we are, whether we know ourselves or not.

That's what I spend most of my time doing, breathing a lot. I like air.

I've been in pain hope it doesn't show I've been insane well the time is slow

But I think I know just as many creative people who've never taken drugs in their life as I do who have taken a lot of drugs.

You don't throw your life away Going Inside You get to know who's watching you And besides you resides in your body

I find that the best way to do things is to constantly move forward and to never doubt anything and keep moving forward, if you make a mistake say you made a mistake.

For me my friendship with Omar Rodriguez from Mars Volta that friendship really means a lot to me because he's another creative person who works as hard as I do.

For me it's important to be in balance. To not let fear get in the way of things, to not worry so much about protecting yourself all the time.

The main thing experience has taught me is that one has to sort of hone their relationship to time, you know.

For me it's important to be in balance. To not let fear get in the way of things, to not worry so much about protecting yourself all the time.

Anybody who's a guitar player that's spent that time with another guitar player, there's nothing better than that.

I feel like I'd like to continue putting out records and start putting them out more rapidly than I have until now and for me if I can keep selling the records to the fans that already like me that's fine.

I just like to switch things up all the time. Like when it comes to singing, I try to find a different character for each song.

I still love with all my heart anything that I have ever loved in my life.

Something like trying to protect yourself all the time, things like trying to outwit fate. Those things can be the worst thing you can do for yourself.