Anthony Kiedis Quotes

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

“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.”

“Your mouth was made to suck my kiss.”

“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.”

“One of the better definitions of insanity - doing the exact same thing over and over and expecting the result to be different.”

“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.”

“Under the bridge downtown
Is where I drew some blood
Under the bridge downtown
I could not get enough
Under the bridge downtown
Forgot about my love
Under the bridge downtown
I gave my life away”

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

“Music that I really love and believe in and think is extraordinarily honest and beautiful doesn't always become popular.”

“It didn't matter if I got bitten by a dog or I ripped my pants on the fence post or I poked myself in the eye with a tree branch that I was crawling over, it was all about the shortcut. My whole life I took the shortcut, and I ended up lost.”

“This Life is More than Just a read through.”

“The existence of sexual energy is such an every-day part of life. It's such a natural aspect of life. That we end up relating to without any shame.”

“Just the kind of girl I liked—the weirdo in the bunch.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Even as the words came out of my mouth, my heart was dying a million deaths.”

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

“Time and distance have a way of playing tricks with your best intentions.”

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

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

“I'm still a little bent, a little crooked, but all things considered, I can't complain.”

“I knew there was never anyone to blame when people get into drugs. They're always responsible for their own behavior, and it's not the dealer, and it's not the friend, it's not the childhood.”

“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.”

“Bob Marley poet and a prophet
Bob Marley taught me how to off it
Bob Marley walkin' like he talk it
Goodness me
Can't you see I'm gonna cough it.”

“My tendency for dependency
Is offending me
It's upending me
I'm pretending see
To be strong and free”

“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.”

“Desecration is the smile on my face.”

“How long, How long?
Will I slide?
Separate my side?
I don't believe it's bad
Slit my throat it's all I ever had”

“I never really had the intention of being a rock 'n' roller. It's just that all of my best friends were great musicians and they felt sorry for me so they had me.”

“I'm the bloodstain
On your shirt sleeve
Coming down and more are coming to believe
Now we know it all for sure.”

“All you slingers and fiends
hide behind your rocks
put down your guard
I'm not here to box
this is no showdown
so throw down your gun
you see it doesn't matter
where you come from.”

“Changing and inventing new things is great. That's what we like to do.”