Quotes by Anthony Kiedis

“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...”

“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.”

“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...”

“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 ...”

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

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

“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...”

“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, p...”

“One of the better definitions of insanity - doing the exact same thing over and over and expecting the result to be different.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Just the kind of girl I liked—the weirdo in the bunch.”

“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, and it's not the friend, it's not the childhood. (Scar...”

“When I do think, Man a fucking motel room with a couple of thousand dollars' worth of narcotics would do me right, I just look over at my dog and remember that Buster's never seen me high. (Scar Ti...”

“Changing and inventing new things is great. That's what we like to do. (Australia, 2002).”

“I never really had the intention of being a rock 'n' roller. It's just that all of my best friends were great musicians and they felt sorry for me so they had me. (Much Music 1991).”