Quotes from Anthony Kiedis

I know my dad is a big Internet freak, and he's been known to be a Wikileaker.

There's not alcoholic in the world who wants to be told what to do. Alcoholics are sometimes described as egomaniacs with inferiority complexes. Or, to be cruder, a piece of shit that the universe revolves around.

Every true artist is at war with the world.

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.

Just the kind of girl I liked—the weirdo in the bunch.

When I looked into her eyes, I saw an invisible spirit of something that I already loved.

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.

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.

It takes away a lot of the thrill of killing yourself when people are looking for you and you're disappointing them, because it is a lot of fun when you're out there killing yourself.

One of the better definitions of insanity - doing the exact same thing over and over and expecting the result to be different.

I was a little self-centered gutter punk in the early 1980s and all I wanted to do was diss everybody.

And I have a few friends that I think would go to bat for me no matter what. Flea is definitely one of them. Guy Oseary is one of them.

I have a few friends that I think would go to bat for me no matter what. Flea is definitely one of them. Guy Oseary is one of them.

I know my dad is a big Internet freak, and he's been known to be a Wikileaker.

I walked away a little disheartened, thinking, 'Oh well. I came a long way to meet the Wizard of Oz, but I guess I won't. Such is life.

...whatever I ended up doing with my life,I wanted to people feel the way this music was making me feel.

I never really thought in terms of the concept of being a rock star - being around people like that just seemed like normal day-in-the-life stuff to me. Those were just the surroundings I grew up in.

Even as the words came out of my mouth, my heart was dying a million deaths.

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.

Your mouth was made to suck my kiss.

It's weird, I was such a survivor and so wanted to be a part of life while I was trying to snuff out the life that was inside of me. I had this duality of trying to kill myself with drugs, then eating really good food and exercising and going swimming and trying to be a part of life. I was always going back and forth on some level.

I didn't care if he was a genius or a fucking idiot, he was rotting away, and it wasn't fun to watch.

Time and distance have a way of playing tricks with your best intentions.

Once you've seen a solution to the disease that's tearing you apart, relapsing is never fun.