Anthony Kiedis Quotes - Page 5

All summer long; we'll be playing the festivals. We'll be Reading, we'll be Leeds, we'll be around.

What doesn't kill you only makes your book longer.

If that's what you're thinking, then don't even question it. Go let your freak flag fly, brother.

The sad thing is, people don't want to believe that the person they're in love with is out of his mind, drinking and using, so if you give them even half an excuse, they're going to want to believe it.

My sobriety isn't up for discussion, but as for vices, I seem to hack away at them with my invisible machete from dawn till dusk. The vice of 'more' is an ongoing theme.

The collective love for music and poetry and just the brotherhood of sound. And it's still kind of flowing through me and I attribute that to the team.

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.

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

When you realize that there's a name and a description for this condition that you thought was insanity, you've identified the problem, and now you can do something about it.

The energy is still similar because I saw some old footage of us when we were in France that they'd dredged up out of God knows where and I was like, the energy is still there.

Paul McCartney's dad told him that when he was a kid. "Son, play the piano and when you go to parties, the girls will come to you."

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

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

Even as the words came out of my mouth, my heart was dying a million deaths.

It didn't matter if I got bitten by a dog or I ripped my pants on the fence post or I poked myself in the eye with a tree branch that I was crawling over, it was all about the shortcut. My whole life I took the shortcut, and I ended up lost.

Your mouth was made to suck my kiss.

Once you've seen a solution to the disease that's tearing you apart, relapsing is never fun.

It was like the Wizard of Oz had spoken, and what he said was too ludicrous to take seriously.

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

I had to educate him that there was no such thing as writer's block, that writers write when they write, and when they don't, they don't.

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'm not a true vegan.

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

I walked away a little disheartened, thinking, 'Oh well. I came a long way to meet the Wizard of Oz, but I guess I won't. Such is life.

...for the first time in my life, a voice went off in my head:'You have no power over what happens in your life. Drugs dictate exactly what you're going to do. You've taken your hands off the steering wheel, and you're going wherever the drug world takes you.' That had never changed. The feeling would well up inside of me, and no matter how much I loved my girl or my band or my friends or my family, when that siren song 'Go get high now' started playing in my head, I was off.