Quotes from Anthony Kiedis

I don't take drugs nor drink since 2000 and I must say that I don't think about it anymore, although like every person that was addicted and has money - I know that this can lead to temptation.

Writing music always happened for me in periods when I wasn't under the influence of mind-altering substance.

This Life is More than Just a read through.

The collective love for music and poetry and just the brotherhood of sound. And it's still kind of flowing through me and I attribute that to the team.

The energy is still similar because I saw some old footage of us when we were in France that they'd dredged up out of God knows where and I was like, the energy is still there.

What I've realized over the years is that I have some pretty good friends.

As long as a person is breathing, there is hope for them.

I'm probably not long-term-relationship material for now.

The fact my relationship with my son is so good makes me forgiving of my father and also appreciative.

I like the idea of defying the convention of what it is to be in your 40s, or 50s, or 60s.

Desecration is the smile on my face.

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...

Sometimes life's so much cooler when you just don't know any better and all the painful lessons have not hammered your head open yet.

Adolescence is such a fun time in your life, because you think you know it all, and you haven't gotten to the point where you realize that you know almost nothing.

I don't worry about new young bands. The bounty of life is infinite and so is music and so are opportunities.

I think I'm still figuring out how to be a little less selfish.

I've got used to touring. If you make calculations of the nights spent in hotels in my life, multiplied by the tattoos I have for hundred.

I think people that have fear that, 'Oh if I have a kid I won't be able to do this and I won't be able to do that.' It's kind of the opposite. It really gives you energy. It makes people better.

It seems like the chaos of this world is accelerating, but so is the beauty in the consciousness of more and more people.

I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction.

As a father now, I wouldn't do what my dad did, because it left me feeling emotionally unstable as a kid. But he didn't do the things he did out of selfishness or malice.

The fact my relationship with my son is so good makes me forgiving of my father and also appreciative.

I don't even know what words to use to talk about the music industry anymore. But the business has changed a lot - the methods of releasing music.

I would have to say the person with whom I am most in love is definitely my son, Everly Bear. Although I'm his dad, I'm also his friend.