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.

- Anthony Kiedis

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.

- Anthony Kiedis

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

- Anthony Kiedis

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.

- Anthony Kiedis

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

- Anthony Kiedis

I have to laugh at myself.

- Anthony Kiedis

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

- Anthony Kiedis

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

- Anthony Kiedis

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

- Anthony Kiedis

My father rebelled ferociously against his conservative upbringing where his father physically abused him.

- Anthony Kiedis

The road is not a problem.

- Anthony Kiedis

Now I can look back and say I actually like the upbringing I had and my father was very attentive and a great educator.

- Anthony Kiedis

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.

- Anthony Kiedis

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.

- Anthony Kiedis

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.

- Anthony Kiedis

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.

- Anthony Kiedis

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.

- Anthony Kiedis

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

- Anthony Kiedis

I know whatever my father did, in his own way, he still loved me.

- Anthony Kiedis

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

- Anthony Kiedis