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We've put songs out on singles and weird little packages that only the real vinyl-philes care about.
I find it hard to meet the right woman as people assume I'm a certain type of person - which I'm not.
The fact my relationship with my son is so good makes me forgiving of my father and also appreciative.
I was a little self-centered gutter punk in the early 1980s and all I wanted to do was diss everybody.
...whatever I ended up doing with my life,I wanted to people feel the way this music was making me feel.
We did that with people like Chris Rock, Woody Harrelson, and the environmentalist Julia Butterfly Hill.
My father rebelled ferociously against his conservative upbringing where his father physically abused him.
I don't worry about new young bands. The bounty of life is infinite and so is music and so are opportunities.
Writing music always happened for me in periods when I wasn't under the influence of mind-altering substance.
I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction.
I know I'm in the band and everything but sometimes I just have to rock out to the John Frusciante Experience.
You know I love pot, and I love beer, but I am totally sober, just because it completely stopped working for me.
Now I can look back and say I actually like the upbringing I had and my father was very attentive and a great educator.
It seems like the chaos of this world is accelerating, but so is the beauty in the consciousness of more and more people.
Music itself was color-blind but the media and the radio stations segregate it based on their perceptions of the artists.
I was like a clock that had exploded- my springs were hanging out, my hands were cockeyed, and my numbers were falling off.
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.
I wish there were more good new bands that would light a fire and offer a little friendly competition that would be welcomed.
To be 26 years old and lose your left heart ventricle was probably the most dramatic thing that's ever happened to me in my life...
Paul McCartney's dad told him that when he was a kid. "Son, play the piano and when you go to parties, the girls will come to you."
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 walked away a little disheartened, thinking, 'Oh well. I came a long way to meet the Wizard of Oz, but I guess I won't. Such is life.
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 discovered surfing, which I absolutely fell in love with. That feels good and kind of keeps your body aligned, so does the salt water.
I had to educate him that there was no such thing as writer's block, that writers write when they write, and when they don't, they don't.
Death by evaporation. May the saltwater wind that gets shot out of a barreling wave blow me away like an old puffy dandelion into the sky.
I've got used to touring. If you make calculations of the nights spent in hotels in my life, multiplied by the tattoos I have for hundred.
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.
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.
My guys studied music from a young age and I did not so I think, like, adding the idiot to the table of very talented musicians gave us a unique rub.
The collective love for music and poetry and just the brotherhood of sound. And it's still kind of flowing through me and I attribute that to the team.
My days are whatever I want them to be. I don't have to go worry about chasing some chemical to make me feel OK for a minute, and then make me feel worse.
I had seen these transformations, people who had lost their will to live, coming back from their zombie states and radiating a new life force from their eyes.
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.
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.
My sobriety isn't up for discussion, but as for vices, I seem to hack away at them with my invisible machete from dawn till dusk. The vice of 'more' is an ongoing theme.
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.
When you realize that there's a name and a description for this condition that you thought was insanity, you've identified the problem, and now you can do something about it.
I had not had any drugs for 5 years but then I relapsed again. I have also smoked nearly everything. Every day it was a battle to recover, which I fought for my son and myself.
The energy is still similar because I saw some old footage of us when we were in France that they'd dredged up out of God knows where and I was like, the energy is still there.
I stopped hating and started just being. My whole life, I had been the most defensive person you'd meet, unable to tolerate any criticism. But now I started listening and being.
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.
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.
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.
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.