Quotes by Anthony Kiedis

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

“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 emoti...”

“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.”

“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 ma...”

“I didn't care if he was a genius or a fucking idiot, he was rotting away, and it wasn't fun to watch.”

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

“That was how we wanted to play, majestic and chaotic.”

“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.”

“Every true artist is at war with the world.”

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

“The fact that my circumstances had changed drastically but my behavior hadn't was beginning to wear on me.”

“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...”

“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 forget abou...”

“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 ...”

“When I looked into her eyes, I saw an invisible spirit of something that I already loved.”

“A year jammed full of adventure and misadventure, strides forward and many steps backward, another year in my topsy-turvy, Jekyll-and-Hyde existence.”

“Every time you empty your vessel of that energy, fresh new energy comes flooding in.”

“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.”

“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...”