Anthony Kiedis Quotes - Page 4

I have to laugh at myself.

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

Well, I get excited about music.

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

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

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.

It's weird, I was such a survivor and so wanted to be a part of life while I was trying to snuff out the life that was inside of me. I had this duality of trying to kill myself with drugs, then eating really good food and exercising and going swimming and trying to be a part of life. I was always going back and forth on some level.

We took off our clothes, and we were basically in a sphere of love and light and warmth, and the rest of the world disappeared. It was better than I ever could have dreamed, it was that thing I had been looking for, that love mixed with the rapture of sex.

It takes away a lot of the thrill of killing yourself when people are looking for you and you're disappointing them, because it is a lot of fun when you're out there killing yourself.

In the middle of the last century there was a reason to go to war. This time around the war was a really bad idea and I think the only people that benefited from it were Halliburton and people that made money from it, but that's not an excuse to have a war. Killing American kids so Halliburton can make money is not a righteous reason to go to war.

Writing music always happened for me in periods when I wasn't under the influence of mind-altering substance.

I wish there were more good new bands that would light a fire and offer a little friendly competition that would be welcomed.

I've got used to touring. If you make calculations of the nights spent in hotels in my life, multiplied by the tattoos I have for hundred.

I plan to surf more - learn the way of the wave.

I was starting to come to grips with the fact that I had created a lot of pain and suffering around me, not just within me.

I didn't have to go all the way to India for spiritual enlightenment. The blue-collar spirituality of everyday life was right in front of me, it was in every nook and cranny if I wanted to seek it, but I had chosen to ignore it.

My work was done, so it was time to start digging my grave again.

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.

Nothing was working, and my friend was dead, and I didn't want to look at that.

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

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

I'm an artist and I get very attached to my own little ditties.

A rock star does not age!

I think dying is the ultimate high...

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