Anthony Kiedis

“When you start putting pen to paper, you see a side of your personal truth that doesn't otherwise reveal itself in conversation or thought.”

“Give her the continent and she wanted the hemisphere.”

“A certain amount of volatility and drama can me healthy and keep things fun and interesting if you're willing at any moment during a fight to say, 'This means nothing. I love you, let's forg...”

“That's a spiritual lifestyle, being willing to admit that you don't know everything and that you were wrong about some things. It's about making a list of all the people you've harmed, eithe...”

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”