Top 136 Quotes & Sayings by Anthony Kiedis

Well, I get excited about music.

We did that with people like Chris Rock, Woody Harrelson, and the environmentalist Julia Butterfly Hill.

Now I can look back and say I actually like the upbringing I had and my father was very attentive and a great educator.

I'm not a true vegan.

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.

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

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

My father rebelled ferociously against his conservative upbringing where his father physically abused him.

I know whatever my father did, in his own way, he still loved me.

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.

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

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

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

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

What doesn't kill you only makes your book longer.

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

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

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

The road is not a problem.

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

Personally, I am stuck with one foot in the past and one foot in the present.

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

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.

If you want to get along with somebody, let them be right, and it will last longer.

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.

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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

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.

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

We've just learned how to balance ourselves a little better so that we're happier way more of the time than not, and, you know, being happy is a radical and desirable act if you ask me.

I've acclimated to the music-while-exercising thing.

My days are whatever I want them to be.

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.

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.

I have to laugh at myself.

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

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.

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

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

I've wanted to feel pleasure to the point of insanity. They call it getting high, because it's wanting to know that higher level, that godlike level. You want to touch the heavens, you want to feel glory and euphoria, but the trick is it takes work. You can't buy it, you can't get it on a street corner, you can't steal it or inject it or shove it up your ass, you have to earn it.

I had not had any drugs for 5 years but then I relapsed again. I have also smoked nearly everything. Every day it was a battle to recover, which I fought for my son and myself.

I'm very aware of the chemistry. It's something you can't take for granted. I'm very thankful for it and I recognise the power of its reality in all of our lives. Some people don't and it's a mistake not to because people throw away god-given special chemistry that's very rare, very hard to find.

My days are whatever I want them to be. I don't have to go worry about chasing some chemical to make me feel OK for a minute, and then make me feel worse.

Once I opened my mind to the concept of a greater power, I never struggled with it. Everywhere I went, I felt and saw the existence of a creative intelligence in this universe, of a loving power larger than myself in nature, in people, everywhere.

Sometimes, out of really horrible things come really beautiful things.

Every true artist is at war with the world.

It is difficult to recognize true love, the one which you feel for the other person, when for years the girls, even more than one per night, after concerts would sneak in our beds and were willing to do everything - group sex also - just to stay with Anthony Kiedis and the Red Hot.

I never felt like dying was a good idea.

I don't even bother trying to picture a perfect world, because I don't think that perfection is something to strive for. I prefer imperfection. That's what makes things special. You know, things that change

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

She was probably the girl I loved the most of all my girlfriends, but also the toughest one to make things work out with. If I had put that much effort into any of my other relationships, I'd be married with five kids now.

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

You know what's the worst? Being a 16 year old girl who loves a famous Singer, not solely for his looks, but because you truly believe he is talented and devoted and you agree deeply with his message. Because no matter how intelligently and fully you can express that, people will assume you're just a silly teenager who thinks a famous guy is cute.

There was an uncommon array of people in there [rehab] with me, and I became friends with all of them. You recognize the possibility of your own demise in the lives of these other people. You're doing the same thing they are, but you can't see it in yourself. However, you start seeing all of these tragedies and potential miracles in other people. It's a real eye- and heart-opening situation.