Anthony Kiedis Quotes & Sayings

There was an uncommon array of people in there [rehab] with me, and I became friends with all of them. You recognize the possibility of your own demise in the lives of these other people. You're doing the same thing they are, but you can't see it in yourself. However, you start seeing all of these tragedies and potential miracles in other people. It's a real eye- and heart-opening situation. — Anthony Kiedis

Give her the continent and she wanted the hemisphere. — Anthony Kiedis

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

I've acclimated to the music-while-exercising thing. — Anthony Kiedis

I remember thinking, 'Sometimes you're riding high in April and shot down in June, but at least we have each other.' We were full of enthusiasm and color, and you could sense that something was brewing that could be amazing, but we weren't quite there yet. — Anthony Kiedis

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 were emotionally retarded, and that was the best we could do at the time. — Anthony Kiedis

I didn't see it happening, but the wheels were falling off of me. I didn't care about responsibilities like paying rent, I was just on a runaway train ride. The horribly ironic cosmic trick of drug addiction is that drugs are a lot of fun when you first start using them, but by the time the consequences manifest themselves, you're no longer in a position to say, 'Whoa, gotta stop that.' You've lost that ability, and you've created this pattern of conditioning and reinforcement. It's never something for nothing when drugs are involved. — Anthony Kiedis

Changing and inventing new things is great. That's what we like to do. — Anthony Kiedis

To be 26 years old and lose your left heart ventricle was probably the most dramatic thing that's ever happened to me in my life. — Anthony Kiedis

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. — Anthony Kiedis

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

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 married with five kids now. — Anthony Kiedis

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

Yeah baby, give me some of that rancid yak milk. — Anthony Kiedis

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. — Anthony Kiedis

I'm a crier, let me know if you need some tips. I could cry every day, in a good way. — Anthony Kiedis

For the first time in my life, a voice went off in my head:'You have no power over what happens in your life. Drugs dictate exactly what you're going to do. You've taken your hands off the steering wheel, and you're going wherever the drug world takes you.'
That had never changed. The feeling would well up inside of me, and no matter how much I loved my girl or my band or my friends or my family, when that siren song 'Go get high now' started playing in my head, I was off. — Anthony Kiedis

The road is not a problem. — Anthony Kiedis

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

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

A certain amount of volatility and drama can me healthy and keep things fun and interesting if you're willing at any moment during a fight to say, 'This means nothing. I love you, let's forget about it. — Anthony Kiedis

I had to educate him that there was no such thing as writer's block, that writers write when they write, and when they don't, they don't. — Anthony Kiedis

And we used "I love you" like an apology for the things we couldn't give each other — Anthony Kiedis

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

There's not alcoholic in the world who wants to be told what to do. Alcoholics are sometimes described as egomaniacs with inferiority complexes. Or, to be cruder, a piece of shit that the universe revolves around. — Anthony Kiedis

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. — Anthony Kiedis

We used to fight to the death but we tried the experiment, rolled the dice and like we got. — Anthony Kiedis

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

A rock star never gets old! — Anthony Kiedis

George,
we're the Red Hot Chili Peppers, we're from Hollywood, California,
we're really hard-rocking motherfuckers, and we think you
should produce our record. — Anthony Kiedis

It's weird, I was such a survivor and so wanted to be a part of life while I was trying to snuff out the life that was inside of me. I had this duality of trying to kill myself with drugs, then eating really good food and exercising and going swimming and trying to be a part of life. I was always going back and forth on some level. — Anthony Kiedis

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

We've put songs out on singles and weird little packages that only the real vinyl-philes care about. — Anthony Kiedis

I think I'm still figuring out how to be a little less selfish. — Anthony Kiedis

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. — Anthony Kiedis

Buddhism helps me to have a healthy relationship with my body and spirit. — Anthony Kiedis

Having a moment of clarity was one thing; I'd had moments like that before. It had to be followed with a dedicated push of daily exercise. It's a trite axiom, but practice DOES make perfect. If you want to be a strong swimmer or an accomplished musician, you have to practice. It's the same with sobriety, though the stakes are higher. If you don't practice your program every day, you're putting yourself in a position where you could fly out of the orbit one more time. — Anthony Kiedis

She was a source of love and comfort and friendship and companionship and like-mindedness without any of the difficulties of a girlfriend — Anthony Kiedis

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

I don't take drugs nor drink since 2000 and I must say that I don't think about it anymore, although like every person that was addicted and has money - I know that this can lead to temptation. — Anthony Kiedis

A rock star does not age! — Anthony Kiedis

My work was done, so it was time to start digging my grave again. — Anthony Kiedis

She had an ethereal, dreamy personality that was typified by her adamant refusal to wear her glasses despite terrible nearsightedness. I once asked her if she could see without them, and she said that things were very fuzzy. So why didn't she wear the glasses? 'I really do prefer the world unclear' she said. — Anthony Kiedis

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

One of the better definitions of insanity - doing the exact same thing over and over and expecting the result to be different. — Anthony Kiedis

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

I think dying is the ultimate high. — Anthony Kiedis

All summer long; we'll be playing the festivals. We'll be Reading, we'll be Leeds, we'll be around. — Anthony Kiedis

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

But it seems clear to me that on some level, spirits choose their parents, because these potential parents possess certain traits and values that the soon-to-be child needs to assimilate during his or her lifetime. — 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. — Anthony Kiedis

Sometimes, out of really horrible things come really beautiful things. — Anthony Kiedis

Whatever I ended up doing with my life,I wanted to people feel the way this music was making me feel. — Anthony Kiedis

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. — 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. — Anthony Kiedis

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

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. — Anthony Kiedis

The energy is still similar because I saw some old footage of us when we were in France that they'd dredged up out of God knows where and I was like, the energy is still there. — Anthony Kiedis

It takes away a lot of the thrill of killing yourself when people are looking for you and you're disappointing them, because it is a lot of fun when you're out there killing yourself. — Anthony Kiedis

The fact that my circumstances had changed drastically but my behavior hadn't was beginning to wear on me. — Anthony Kiedis

Suddenly we could all hear, we could all listen, and instead of being caught up in our finite little balls of bullshit, we could all become players in that great universal orchestra again. — Anthony Kiedis

We didn't think about it but we never wanted to sound like anybody else. — Anthony Kiedis

Desecration is the smile on my face. — Anthony Kiedis

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

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

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. — Anthony Kiedis

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. — Anthony Kiedis

He's your best friend, he's with you day and night, he falls in love, see you next year — Anthony Kiedis

Your mouth was made to suck my kiss. — Anthony Kiedis

It started when we were little kids.
Free spirits, but already
tormented by our own hands
given to us by our parents.
We got together and wrote on desks
and slept in laundry rooms near snowy mountains
and slipped through whatever
cracks we could find,
minds altered, we didn't falter
in portraving hysterical and
tragic characters in a smog
filled universe.
we loved the dirty city
and the journeys away from it.
We had not yet been or seen our friends, selves,
chase tails round and round in downward spirals,
leaving trail of irretrievable,
vital life juice behind.
Still, the
brothersbloodcomradespartnerfamilycuzz
was impenetrable
and we lived inside it
laughing with no clothes, and
everything experimental 'till
death was upon us.
In our face, mortality. — Anthony Kiedis

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

Nothing was working, and my friend was dead, and I didn't want to look at that. — Anthony Kiedis

Why should we think nudity is such a revolting thing in a land where there is so much violence and corruption and racism and hatred? Nudity seems like a welcome relief from all the bullshit in life. — Anthony Kiedis

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. — Anthony Kiedis

I had to sit with my senses. This clear, beautiful intuition took over. I knew exactly how I felt, and I wasn't confused or clouded or compromised. I realized that none of my feelings had diminished, but I might have to lose someone I truly loved. I didn't want to run away from Claire, but I knew drug addiction was strong enough that I had to be willing, if need be, to let go of the person I'd just fallen in love with. — Anthony Kiedis

Adolescence is such a fun time in your life, because you think you know it all, and you haven't gotten to the point where you realize that you know almost nothing. — Anthony Kiedis

You know what's the worst? Being a 16 year old girl who loves a famous Singer, not solely for his looks, but because you truly believe he is talented and devoted and you agree deeply with his message. Because no matter how intelligently and fully you can express that, people will assume you're just a silly teenager who thinks a famous guy is cute. — Anthony Kiedis

I kept going deeper and deeper into this world of repetition ... The sad thing is, people don't want to believe that the person they're in love with is out of his mind, drinking and using, so if you give them even half an excuse, they're going to want to believe it. A girl with no prior exposure to the disease had to be blissfully unaware of the nefarious tricks of the dope fiend. That's how I was able to get high all summer and autumn and pretend like it wasn't happening. I was saying, 'I'm sick.' I was deteriorating physically and emotionally. Jaime was tolerant, and it did speak well of her character, because she was not the type to abandon ship during a crisis. She didn't consider backing off or bowing out, she was just there, which I can't say about everybody. I don't know if I could say it even about myself. — Anthony Kiedis

I wanted to be the best at whatever it was that was in front of me. — Anthony Kiedis

I walked away a little disheartened, thinking, 'Oh well. I came a long way to meet the Wizard of Oz, but I guess I won't. Such is life. — Anthony Kiedis

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. — Anthony Kiedis

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

I know I'm in the band and everything but sometimes I just have to rock out to the John Frusciante Experience — Anthony Kiedis

I wish there were more good new bands that would light a fire and offer a little friendly competition that would be welcomed. — Anthony Kiedis

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

I felt I had thrown away so much in
my life, but I also felt an unspoken bond between me and my city.
I'd spent so much time wandering the streets of L.A. and hiking
through the Hollywood Hills that I sensed there was a nonhuman
entity, maybe the spirit of the hills and the city, who had me in her
sights and was looking after me. Even if I was a loner in my own
band, at least I still felt the presence of the city I lived in. — Anthony Kiedis

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

I'm very aware of the chemistry. It's something you can't take for granted. I'm very thankful for it and I recognise the power of its reality in all of our lives. Some people don't and it's a mistake not to because people throw away god-given special chemistry that's very rare, very hard to find. — Anthony Kiedis

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

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. — Anthony Kiedis

I had not had any drugs for 5 years but then I relapsed again. I have also smoked nearly everything. Every day it was a battle to recover, which I fought for my son and myself. — Anthony Kiedis

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. — Anthony Kiedis

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, people go out together and one comes back and the other doesn't. Or both of them never do. — Anthony Kiedis

I was withering away, mentally, spiritually, physically, creatively- everything was fading out. — Anthony Kiedis

You're not getting the b-level tunes. Our most recent producer, Danger Mouse, was quite sure about that. So you're getting the best of the best, the cream of the cream of what we have to offer. — Anthony Kiedis

I never felt like dying was a good idea. — Anthony Kiedis

That was how we wanted to play, majestic and chaotic. — Anthony Kiedis

When you're using drugs, you're driven by this mystical black energy, a force inside you that just won't quit. And the weaker you get, the more you feed into that energy, and the more it fucks with you. When your spirit becomes dark and your lifestyle becomes dark, your existence is susceptible to infiltration by dark spirits. I've seen it so many times with addicts. You can see that they're controlled by dark energy, the way they look, their appearance, their voice, their behavior, it's not them. — Anthony Kiedis

The drive downtown is an experience unto itself. You're controlled by this dark energy that's about to take you to a place where you know you don't belong at this stage in your life. You get on the 101 freeway and it's night and it's cool outside. It's a pretty drive, and your heart is racing, your blood is flowing through your veins, an it's kind of dangerous, because the people dealing are cut-throat, and there are cops everywhere. It's not your neck of the woods anymore, now you're coming from a nice house in the hills, driving a convertible Camaro. — Anthony Kiedis

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. — Anthony Kiedis