Anthony Kiedis's Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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

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

I have to laugh at myself.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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