Anthony Kiedis
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.Collection: Swimming
We took off our clothes, and we were basically in a sphere of love and light and warmth, and the rest of the world disappeared. It was better than I ever could have dreamed, it was that thing I had been looking for, that love mixed with the rapture of sex.Collection: Sex
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.Collection: Fun
In the middle of the last century there was a reason to go to war. This time around the war was a really bad idea and I think the only people that benefited from it were Halliburton and people that made money from it, but that's not an excuse to have a war. Killing American kids so Halliburton can make money is not a righteous reason to go to war.Collection: War
Writing music always happened for me in periods when I wasn't under the influence of mind-altering substance.Collection: Writing
I wish there were more good new bands that would light a fire and offer a little friendly competition that would be welcomed.Collection: Fire
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.Collection: Tattoo
I plan to surf more - learn the way of the wave.Collection: Way
I was starting to come to grips with the fact that I had created a lot of pain and suffering around me, not just within me.Collection: Pain
I didn't have to go all the way to India for spiritual enlightenment. The blue-collar spirituality of everyday life was right in front of me, it was in every nook and cranny if I wanted to seek it, but I had chosen to ignore it.Collection: Spiritual
My work was done, so it was time to start digging my grave again.Collection: Digging
Nothing was working, and my friend was dead, and I didn't want to look at that.Collection: Looks
I'm an artist and I get very attached to my own little ditties.Collection: Artist
A rock star does not age!Collection: Stars
I think dying is the ultimate high...Collection: Thinking
All summer long; we'll be playing the festivals. We'll be Reading, we'll be Leeds, we'll be around.Collection: Summer
The sad thing is, people don't want to believe that the person they're in love with is out of his mind, drinking and using, so if you give them even half an excuse, they're going to want to believe it.Collection: Drinking
If that's what you're thinking, then don't even question it. Go let your freak flag fly, brother.Collection: Brother
My sobriety isn't up for discussion, but as for vices, I seem to hack away at them with my invisible machete from dawn till dusk. The vice of 'more' is an ongoing theme.Collection: Sobriety
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.Collection: Team
When you realize that there's a name and a description for this condition that you thought was insanity, you've identified the problem, and now you can do something about it.Collection: Names
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.Collection: Energy
Paul McCartney's dad told him that when he was a kid. "Son, play the piano and when you go to parties, the girls will come to you."Collection: Girl
Even as the words came out of my mouth, my heart was dying a million deaths.Collection: Heart
It didn't matter if I got bitten by a dog or I ripped my pants on the fence post or I poked myself in the eye with a tree branch that I was crawling over, it was all about the shortcut. My whole life I took the shortcut, and I ended up lost.Collection: Dog
Your mouth was made to suck my kiss.Collection: Kissing
Once you've seen a solution to the disease that's tearing you apart, relapsing is never fun.Collection: Fun
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.Collection: Thinking
I had to educate him that there was no such thing as writer's block, that writers write when they write, and when they don't, they don't.Collection: Block
...for the first time in my life, a voice went off in my head:'You have no power over what happens in your life. Drugs dictate exactly what you're going to do. You've taken your hands off the steering wheel, and you're going wherever the drug world takes you.' That had never changed. The feeling would well up inside of me, and no matter how much I loved my girl or my band or my friends or my family, when that siren song 'Go get high now' started playing in my head, I was off.Collection: Girl
It was like the Wizard of Oz had spoken, and what he said was too ludicrous to take seriously.Collection: Wizards
We've put songs out on singles and weird little packages that only the real vinyl-philes care about.Collection: Song
...whatever I ended up doing with my life,I wanted to people feel the way this music was making me feel.Collection: People
When we get together to rehearse, we could write music together all day long - GOOD music.Collection: Writing
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.Collection: Fun
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.Collection: Fun
Once you’ve seen a solution to the disease that’s tearing you apart, relapsing is never fun.Collection: Fun