Top 100 Anthony Kiedis Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “And we used “I love you” like an apology for the things we couldn’t give each other.”

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52. “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.”

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53. “Every time you empty your vessel of that energy, fresh new energy comes flooding in.”

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54. “Desecration is the smile on my face.”

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

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56. “But it seems clear to me that on some level, spirits choose their parents, because these potential parents possess certain traits and values that the soon-to-be child needs to assimilate during his or her lifetime.”

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57. “I’ve wanted to feel pleasure to the point of insanity. They call it getting high, because it’s wanting to know that higher level, that godlike level. You want to touch the heavens, you want to feel glory and euphoria, but the trick is it takes work. You can’t buy it, you can’t get it on a street corner, you can’t steal it or inject it or shove it up your ass, you have to earn it.”

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58. “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.”

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59. “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.”

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60. “I don’t worry about new young bands. The bounty of life is infinite and so is music and so are opportunities.”

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61. “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.”

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62. “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.”

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63. “It was because all we wanted was each other’s constant love and attention and for no one else to receive that love and attention, which is a selfish and difficult place to be in a relationship. We were emotionally retarded, and that was the best we could do at the time.”

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64. “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.”

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

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66. “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.”

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67. “The fact my relationship with my son is so good makes me forgiving of my father and also appreciative.”

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

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69. “She wasn’t about to go down that road herself, which was a testament to her spiritual awakening and her commitment to sanity. It was a real blessing that she didn’t follow me, because oftentimes, people go out together and one comes back and the other doesn’t. Or both of them never do.”

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70. “Also, we’re all actually different blood types and we have one represented by each guy in the band.”

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71. “I think I’m still figuring out how to be a little less selfish.”

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72. “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, it’s not the friend, it’s not the bad influence, it’s not the childhood.”

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

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74. “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.”

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75. “I don’t take drugs nor drink since 2000 and I must say that I don’t think about it anymore, although like every person that was addicted and has money – I know that this can lead to temptation.”

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76. “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.”

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77. “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.”

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78. “If you want to get along with somebody, let them be right, and it will last longer.”

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79. “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.”

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80. “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.”

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81. “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.”

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82. “I plan to surf more – learn the way of the wave.”

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83. “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.”

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

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85. “I never felt like dying was a good idea.”

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86. “I know my dad is a big Internet freak, and he’s been known to be a Wikileaker.”

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87. “I have to laugh at myself.”

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88. “A rock star never gets old!”

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89. “I was a little self-centered gutter punk in the early 1980s and all I wanted to do was diss everybody.”

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

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91. “Nothing was working, and my friend was dead, and I didn’t want to look at that.”

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92. “I wish there were more good new bands that would light a fire and offer a little friendly competition that would be welcomed.”

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93. “The horribly ironic cosmic trick of drug addiction is that drugs are a lot of fun when you first start using them, but by the time the consequences manifest themselves, you’re no longer in a position to say, “Whoa, gotta stop that.” You’ve lost that ability, and you’ve created this pattern of conditioning and reinforcement. It’s never something for nothing when drugs are involved.”

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94. “I never really thought in terms of the concept of being a rock star – being around people like that just seemed like normal day-in-the-life stuff to me. Those were just the surroundings I grew up in.”

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95. “You know, I like to climb trees and ride bikes and play.”

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96. “I think dying is the ultimate high.”

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97. “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.”

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98. “The good news is that by the second year, those cravings were about as half as frequent, and by the third year, half as much again. I’m still a little bent, a little crooked, but all things crooked, I can’t complain. After all those years of all kinds of abuse and crashing into trees at eighty miles an hour and jumping off buildings and living through overdoses and liver disease, I feel better now than I did ten years ago. I might have some scar tissue, but that’s alright, I’m still making progress.”

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99. “My work was done, so it was time to start digging my grave again.”

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100. “He’s your best friend, he’s with you day and night, he falls in love, see you next year.”

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