Quotes By Anthony Kiedis

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.

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

The road is not a problem.

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 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 have to laugh at myself.

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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

Well, I get excited about music.

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

My days are whatever I want them to be.

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.

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

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