Quotes By Anthony Kiedis

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

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.

Every true artist is at war with the world.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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 discovered surfing, which I absolutely fell in love with. That feels good and kind of keeps your body aligned, so does the salt water.