Anthony Kiedis Quotes
Thursday, February 22nd, 2007
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.
It seems like the chaos of this world is accelerating, but so is the beauty in the consciousness of more and more people.
There really was a magical vibe happening between everybody when John came back.
John being sober, myself being sober, Flea being..mostly sober, was hugely exciting and influential to our last recording.
You know I love pot, and I love beer, but I am totally sober, just because it completely stopped working for me.
I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction.
He’s the cosmic wizard of the band.
It’s strictly based on the fact that they like these songs and the colors that we’re perpetrating on this record.
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.
In this particular place, the fact that people are so down with this record is not a result of us being flavor-of-the-moment or youth culture trend of the early ’90s.
We’re able to breathe in each other’s space at this point, and it was never really like that before, even when we were hyper best friends.
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.
My feeling is that what somebody like us does is much better expressed and conveyed and related to as a policy of attraction rather than promotion.
Right, it’s like creating a [TV] station from scratch. We invite people who we feel have something powerful to offer the world, either through comedy or activism or strong philosophy.
Once you start playing, the sort of chemicals and spirits that get realeased inspire you to become even more creative.
Sometimes the fickle nature of the public decides, “Oh, they’re good. Oh, they’re bad,” irregardless of what you’re up to.
In terms of having high hopes that the level of consciousness will get higher and higher, yeah.
We were definitely on the contrarian tip. The funny thing is, at the time, I was so sworn to the punk rock, I couldn’t even hear Duran Duran.
I don’t really feel superstitious. That’s just the nature of life, the whole “battles lost and won” concept. I think we’re very lucky because we love music so much and we love each other so much.
I‘ve changed so much, but I kind of miss the blustery naiveti of young Anthony. I love that guy.
It was so easy for us to write and record it, just because we were all so happy to have John back and it was flowing.
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.
Also, we’re all actually different blood types and we have one represented by each guy in the band.
Chemistry is beautiful and important to any musical endeavor, and it’s also impossible to figure out or force it.
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.
