Quotes By Anthony Kiedis

Well, I get excited about music.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

But then when he left, I realized that it was harder to write songs and feel spiritually connected to art and music as a band. When he came back I felt it again, instantaneously.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

You know, I like to climb trees and ride bikes and play.

The road is not a problem.

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

I have to laugh at myself.

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

My days are whatever I want them to be.

I'm not a true vegan.

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.

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.