Anthony Kiedis

“Every true artist is at war with the world.”

“That was how we wanted to play, majestic and chaotic.”

“Well, I get excited about music.”

“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 think I'm still figuring out how to be a little less selfish.”

“The road is not a problem.”

“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.”

“I'm not a true vegan.”

“My days are whatever I want them to be.”

“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.”

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

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

“And 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.”

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

“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.”

“Give her the continent and she wanted the hemisphere.”

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

“My work was done, so it was time to start digging my grave again.”

“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.”

“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.”