Quotes from Anthony Kiedis

Every time I'd be thinking, "I have to keep," I'd remember, "No, you gotta give away instead." When I started going regularly to meetings, one of the principles I learned was that the way to maintain your own sobriety is to give it to another suffering alcoholic. Every time you empty your vessel of that energy, fresh new energy comes flooding in.

If you never tell a lie, then you never have to play dumb

Except I was a wreck. I usually was whenever I went downtown and hooked up with Mario.

Rick Rubin and I had been talking about sarcasm a lot. Rick had read a theory that it was an incredibly detrimental form of humor that depresses the spirit of its proponents.

We laid down the basic tracks, but I was still having trouble with the lyrics. A lot had to do with my state of mind. When you're at odds with yourself, it's hard to create. Sometimes the writing process is as easy as opening up the window and letting in the breeze. And sometimes it's like chiseling away at a block of granite with a pencil.

Drug addiction is a progressive disease, so every time you go out, it gets a little uglier than it was before; it's not like you go back to the early days of using, when there was less of a price to pay. It isn't fun anymore, but it's still desperately exciting.

Yeah baby, give me some of that rancid yak milk.

Stranded, stranded, stranded on the toilet bowl/What do you do when you're stranded and there ain't nothing on the roll?/To prove you're a man, you must wipe with your hand/Stranded, stranded, stranded on the toilet bowl.

You know I love pot, and I love beer, but I am totally sober, just because it completely stopped working for me.

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.

I discovered surfing, which I absolutely fell in love with. That feels good and kind of keeps your body aligned, so does the salt water.

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.

Four years into the life of my son, I realize I'm so in love with him and he's so in love with me that if I don't find that lifelong partner out there, it's okay.

We'll have these people hang out with us while we're doing our touring, and talk to them and let them speak their piece to the world.

I inherited my father's insatiable desire to meet all the beautiful girls in the world.

In terms of having high hopes that the level of consciousness will get higher and higher, yeah.

You know, I like to climb trees and ride bikes and play.

When I was younger, I used to hate Germany. I hated the country, the people, the language, the culture, everything! But over the years I've grown to really appreciate the German people.

I think there is always going to be inspired music and there are always going to be inspired listeners and there is always going to be an inspired method of getting it from A to B.

I didn't really get to Led Zeppelin until I was in my 20s.

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

I find it hard to meet the right woman as people assume I'm a certain type of person - which I'm not.

Also, we're all actually different blood types and we have one represented by each guy in the band.

But then when he left, I realized that it was harder to write songs and feel spiritually connected to art and music as a band. When he came back I felt it again, instantaneously.