Quotes By Anthony Kiedis

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.

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

I'm probably not long-term-relationship material for now.

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

Well, I get excited about music.

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.

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.

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

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

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

I would consider him definitely one of my very best friends and I know he feels the same about me. We have a lot of love and respect.

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

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.

We'll have these people hang out with us while we're doing our touring, and talk to them and let them speak their piece to the world.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

The road is not a problem.

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 have to laugh at myself.