Quotes By Anthony Kiedis

I'm not a true vegan.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Well, I get excited about music.

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

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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