Quotes by Anthony Kiedis

• It seems like the chaos of this world is accelerating, but so is the beauty in the consciousness of more and more people.
• You know I love pot, and I love beer, but I am totally sober, just because it completely stopped working for me.
• 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.
• 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.
• We did that with people like Chris Rock, Woody Harrelson, and the environmentalist Julia Butterfly Hill.
• 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.
• Also, we're all actually different blood types and we have one represented by each guy in the band.
• I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction.
• In terms of having high hopes that the level of consciousness will get higher and higher, yeah.
• 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.
• 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.