Kiedis Anthony Quotes & Sayings

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

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

Honestly, I'm really just a teddy bear. — Anthony Kiedis

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

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. — 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

The reason the program is so successful is because alcoholics help other alcoholics. I've never met a Normie (our lingo for a person who doesn't have a problem with drugs and alcohol) who could even conceive of what it's like to be an alcoholic. Normies are always going, 'There's this new pill you can take and you won't want to shoot heroin anymore.' That shows a fundamental misunderstanding of alcoholism and drug addiction. These aren't just physical allergies, they're obsessions of the mind and maladies of the spirit. It's a threefold disease. And if it's partly a spiritual malady, then there's a spiritual cure. — Anthony Kiedis

I'm an artist and I get very attached to my own little ditties. — Anthony Kiedis

Every true artist is at war with the world. — Anthony Kiedis

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

This Life is More than Just a read through. — Anthony Kiedis

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

The fact that I was a junkie for a long time is only one slice of my own personal pie, which is made up of a lot of different slices. — 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

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

Well, I get excited about music. — Anthony Kiedis

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

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

I'm not a true vegan. — 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

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. — Anthony Kiedis

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

I never felt like dying was a good idea. — 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

T's so lonely when you don't even know yourself.. it's so lonely. — 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

I plan to surf more - learn the way of the wave. — 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

Having gone through it all had changed our outlooks. You can't be as much of a bitch as you were before, you can't be as much as an egomaniac, you can't feel as much like the world owed you something, you can't be the 'where's mine?' guy. — Anthony Kiedis

Once I opened my mind to the concept of a greater power, I never struggled with it. Everywhere I went, I felt and saw the existence of a creative intelligence in this universe, of a loving power larger than myself in nature, in people, everywhere. — Anthony Kiedis

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

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. — 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

As long as a person is breathing, there is hope for them. — 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

There wasn't any single moment of bedazzling revelation, it was more of an education process. The more I learned about the nature of addiction, the more I was willing to look at my own behavior and history. And the more I was able to help the people I was in there with, the more it all made sense. A lot of this process came through witnessing the sickness of these people I was in rehab with, for me to see these people and care about them, and to know how slim their chances were of ever changing the demonic possession they had been living with. I realized this was not the jail I wanted to live my life in. — Anthony Kiedis

The fact that my circumstances had changed drastically but my behavior hadn't was beginning to wear on me. — 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 didn't really get to Led Zeppelin until I was in my 20s. — Anthony Kiedis

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. — Anthony Kiedis

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. — 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

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

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 have to laugh at myself. — Anthony Kiedis

Writing music always happened for me in periods when I wasn't under the influence of mind-altering substance. — Anthony Kiedis

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

I have a few friends that I think would go to bat for me no matter what. Flea is definitely one of them. Guy Oseary is one of them. — Anthony Kiedis

The collective love for music and poetry and just the brotherhood of sound. And it's still kind of flowing through me and I attribute that to the team. — 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

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

Desecration is the smile on my face. — Anthony Kiedis

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

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

I didn't care if he was a genius or a fucking idiot, he was rotting away, and it wasn't fun to watch. — 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

I've been vegetarian since the 80s and, lately, even vegan. And I once happened to witness the slaughter of a cow. What atrocity must undergo an animal to satisfy the appetite of those fat
men who eat hamburgers! — 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

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

Those are the feelings you feel when you're out there and enough dark energy possesses you and you think, "Who the fuck am I? What happened to me? — Anthony Kiedis

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

And then I realized I was high. I loved the sensation. It felt like medicine to soothe the soul and awaken the senses. There was nothing awkward or scary-I didn't feel like I had lost control-in fact, I felt like I was in control. — 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

And when you're eighteen years old, it doesn't take that much provoking to get you to a place where you can't stop yourself — Anthony Kiedis

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