Anthony Kiedis famous quotes

You know what's the worst? Being a 16 year old girl who loves a famous Singer, not solely for his looks, but because you truly believe he is talented and devoted and you agree deeply with his message. Because no matter how intelligently and fully you can express that, people will assume you're just a silly teenager who thinks a famous guy is cute.
-- Anthony Kiedis

#Cute #Girl #Teenager

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

#People #World #Chaos

I've wanted to feel pleasure to the point of insanity. They call it getting high, because it's wanting to know that higher level, that godlike level. You want to touch the heavens, you want to feel glory and euphoria, but the trick is it takes work. You can't buy it, you can't get it on a street corner, you can't steal it or inject it or shove it up your ass, you have to earn it.
-- Anthony Kiedis

#Heaven #Insanity #Getting High

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

#Father #Conservative #Upbringing

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.
-- Anthony Kiedis

#Dad #Son #Love Is

As long as a person is breathing, there is hope for them.
-- Anthony Kiedis

#Breathing #Long #There Is Hope

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

#Art #Thinking #Mind

There was an uncommon array of people in there [rehab] with me, and I became friends with all of them. You recognize the possibility of your own demise in the lives of these other people. You're doing the same thing they are, but you can't see it in yourself. However, you start seeing all of these tragedies and potential miracles in other people. It's a real eye- and heart-opening situation.
-- Anthony Kiedis

#Real #Heart #Eye

Every true artist is at war with the world.
-- Anthony Kiedis

#War #Artist #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.
-- Anthony Kiedis

#Water #Feel Good #Surfing

My days are whatever I want them to be,
-- Anthony Kiedis

#Want

Once I opened my mind to the concept of a greater power, I never struggled with it. Everywhere I went, I felt and saw the existence of a creative intelligence in this universe, of a loving power larger than myself in nature, in people, everywhere.
-- Anthony Kiedis

#People #Creative #Mind

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.
-- Anthony Kiedis

#Paper #Sides #Conversation

Music itself was color-blind but the media and the radio stations segregate it based on their perceptions of the artists.
-- Anthony Kiedis

#Artist #Media #Color

Having a moment of clarity was one thing; I'd had moments like that before. It had to be followed with a dedicated push of daily exercise. It's a trite axiom, but practice DOES make perfect. If you want to be a strong swimmer or an accomplished musician, you have to practice. It's the same with sobriety, though the stakes are higher. If you don't practice your program every day, you're putting yourself in a position where you could fly out of the orbit one more time.
-- Anthony Kiedis

#Strong #Inspiration #Exercise

Your mouth was made to suck my kiss.
-- Anthony Kiedis

#Kissing #Mouths #Made

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

#Zeppelins

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

#Selfish #Thinking #Littles

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

#Blood #Guy #Different

When I looked into her eyes, I saw an invisible spirit of something that I already loved.
-- Anthony Kiedis

#Eye #Saws #Spirit

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, either emotionally or physically or financially, and going back and making amends. That's a spiritual lifestyle. It's not a fluffy ethereal concept.
-- Anthony Kiedis

#Spiritual #People #Fluffy

Give her the continent and she wanted the hemisphere.
-- Anthony Kiedis

#Giving #Hemisphere #Wanted

She was probably the girl I loved the most of all my girlfriends, but also the toughest one to make things work out with. If I had put that much effort into any of my other relationships, I'd be married with five kids now.
-- Anthony Kiedis

#Girl #Kids #Work Out

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 forget about it.
-- Anthony Kiedis

#Fun #Drama #Love You

She wasn't about to go down that road herself, which was a testament to her spiritual awakening and her commitment to sanity. It was a real blessing that she didn't follow me, because oftentimes, people go out together and one comes back and the other doesn't. Or both of them never do.
-- Anthony Kiedis

#Spiritual #Real #Commitment

I don't even bother trying to picture a perfect world, because I don't think that perfection is something to strive for. I prefer imperfection. That's what makes things special. You know, things that change
-- Anthony Kiedis

#Thinking #Perfect #Special

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.
-- Anthony Kiedis

#Fun #People #Addiction

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.
-- Anthony Kiedis

#Pain #Suffering #Facts

I was like a clock that had exploded- my springs were hanging out, my hands were cockeyed, and my numbers were falling off.
-- Anthony Kiedis

#Spring #Fall #Hands

Every time you empty your vessel of that energy, fresh new energy comes flooding in.
-- Anthony Kiedis

#Energy #Empty #Vessel

I stopped hating and started just being. My whole life, I had been the most defensive person you'd meet, unable to tolerate any criticism. But now I started listening and being.
-- Anthony Kiedis

#Hate #Listening #Criticism

I knew there was never anyone to blame when people get into drugs. They're always responsible for their own behavior, and it's not the dealer, it's not the friend, it's not the bad influence, it's not the childhood.
-- Anthony Kiedis

#People #Childhood #Drug

Sometimes, out of really horrible things come really beautiful things.
-- Anthony Kiedis

#Beautiful #Sometimes #Horrible

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.
-- Anthony Kiedis

#Sex #Light #Clothes

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.
-- Anthony Kiedis

#Love And Respect #Friend Love #Feels

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

#Digging #Done #Graves

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.
-- Anthony Kiedis

#Balance #Littles #Way

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

#Father #Looks #Educator

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.
-- Anthony Kiedis

#Son #Years #Four

I'm not a true vegan.
-- Anthony Kiedis

#Vegan

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

#Ideas #Defying #Conventions

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

#Beer #Marijuana #Sober

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.
-- Anthony Kiedis

#Country #Hate #Years

The fact my relationship with my son is so good makes me forgiving of my father and also appreciative.
-- Anthony Kiedis

#Father #Son #Forgiving

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

#Dad #Freak #Internet

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.
-- Anthony Kiedis

#Use #Method #Changed

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

#Beautiful #Girl #Father

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

#Butterfly #Rocks #People

Adolescence is such a fun time in your life, because you think you know it all, and you haven’t gotten to the point where you realize that you know almost nothing.
-- Anthony Kiedis

#Fun #Thinking #Realizing

You instinctively know that nothing will ever be the same, and you have to carry that knowledge around with you like a huge weight. The next time you see your girl, you can’t look her straight in the eyes the same way you did for all those years.
-- Anthony Kiedis

#Girl #Eye #Years

This Life is More than Just a read through.
-- Anthony Kiedis

#Philosophy #Life Is #This Life

The good news is that by the second year, those cravings were about as half as frequent, and by the third year, half as much again. I'm still a little bent, a little crooked, but all things crooked, I can't complain. After all those years of all kinds of abuse and crashing into trees at eighty miles an hour and jumping off buildings and living through overdoses and liver disease, I feel better now than I did ten years ago. I might have some scar tissue, but that's alright, I'm still making progress.
-- Anthony Kiedis

#Feel Better #Jumping #Years

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.
-- Anthony Kiedis

#Exercise #Swimming #Drug

Just the kind of girl I liked—the weirdo in the bunch.
-- Anthony Kiedis

#Girl #Kind #Bunch

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

#Best Friend #Good Friend #Years

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

#Fun #Disease #Solutions

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

#Wizards #Said

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.
-- Anthony Kiedis

#Drinking #Believe #People

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.
-- Anthony Kiedis

#Stars #Rocks #People

It was because all we wanted was each other's constant love and attention and for no one else to receive that love and attention, which is a selfish and difficult place to be in a relationship. We were emotionally retarded, and that was the best we could do at the time.
-- Anthony Kiedis

#Selfish #Attention #Retarded

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

#Past #Feet #Stuck

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

#Book

I know whatever my father did, in his own way, he still loved me.
-- Anthony Kiedis

#Father #Way #Stills

Desecration is the smile on my face.
-- Anthony Kiedis

#Faces #Smile On My Face

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.
-- Anthony Kiedis

#Life #Lessons #Sometimes

Why should we think nudity is such a revolting thing in a land where there is so much violence and corruption and racism and hatred? Nudity seems like a welcome relief from all the bullshit in life.
-- Anthony Kiedis

#Thinking #Land #Racism

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.
-- Anthony Kiedis

#Kids #Thinking #Opposites

I have to laugh at myself.
-- Anthony Kiedis

#Laughing

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.
-- Anthony Kiedis

#Dad #Father #Kids

Well, I get excited about music.
-- Anthony Kiedis

#Excited #Wells

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

#Looks #Want

I’m not a true vegan. I dabble in sustainable fish and dawdle in the consumption of eggs. Steak doesn’t speak to me, and tempeh is so-so. I’ll savor a solitary apricot that’s been kissed by my baby.
-- Anthony Kiedis

#Baby #Eggs #Apricots

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

#Want #Lasts

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

#People #Assuming #Type

Changing and inventing new things is great. That's what we like to do.
-- Anthony Kiedis

Honestly, I'm really just a teddy bear.
-- Anthony Kiedis

#Bears #Teddy Bear #Honestly

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

#Self #Gutters #Littles

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

#Long #Term #Materials

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.
-- Anthony Kiedis

#People #Pieces #World

I had seen these transformations, people who had lost their will to live, coming back from their zombie states and radiating a new life force from their eyes.
-- Anthony Kiedis

#Eye #People #Zombie

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

#Heart #Dying #Mouths

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

#Brother #Thinking #Flags

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.
-- Anthony Kiedis

#Thinking #Inspired #Method

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

#Getting High #Levels #Consciousness

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.
-- Anthony Kiedis

#Dog #Eye #Tree

...whatever I ended up doing with my life,I wanted to people feel the way this music was making me feel.
-- Anthony Kiedis

#People #Way #Feels

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.
-- Anthony Kiedis

#Names #Insanity #Problem

Death by evaporation. May the saltwater wind that gets shot out of a barreling wave blow me away like an old puffy dandelion into the sky.
-- Anthony Kiedis

#Blow #Wind #Sky

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.
-- Anthony Kiedis

#Thinking #Long #Wizards

Time and distance have a way of playing tricks with your best intentions.
-- Anthony Kiedis

#Distance #Way #Intention

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.
-- Anthony Kiedis

#Block #Writing #Educate

When we get together to rehearse, we could write music together all day long - GOOD music.
-- Anthony Kiedis

#Writing #Long #Together

I'm still a little bent, a little crooked, but all things considered, I can't complain.
-- Anthony Kiedis

#Complaining #Littles #Bent

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.
-- Anthony Kiedis

#Spiritual #Blue #Everyday

I had to sit with my senses. This clear, beautiful intuition took over. I knew exactly how I felt, and I wasn't confused or clouded or compromised. I realized that none of my feelings had diminished, but I might have to lose someone I truly loved. I didn't want to run away from Claire, but I knew drug addiction was strong enough that I had to be willing, if need be, to let go of the person I'd just fallen in love with.
-- Anthony Kiedis

#Beautiful #Letting Go #Running

...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.
-- Anthony Kiedis

#Girl #Song #Taken