Anthony Kiedis

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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 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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“I have to laugh at myself.”

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