Top 35 Anthony Kiedis Quotes

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.

I’m not a true vegan.

I think I’m still figuring out how to be a little less selfish.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

What I’ve realized over the years is that I have some pretty good friends.

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.

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

I have to laugh at myself.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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 didn’t really get to Led Zeppelin until I was in my 20s.

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.

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.

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.

The road is not a problem.

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

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

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.

I’ve acclimated to the music-while-exercising thing.

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

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