Quotes By Anthony Kiedis

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

When you're at odds with yourself, it's hard to create. Sometimes the writing process is as easy as opening up the window and letting in the breeze. And sometimes it's like chiseling away at a block of granite with a pencil.

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.

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.

I don't worry about new young bands. The bounty of life is infinite and so is music and so are opportunities.

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

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