Anthony Kiedis

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.

My days are whatever I want them to be.

Well, I get excited about music.

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

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.

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.

We did that with people like Chris Rock, Woody Harrelson, and the environmentalist Julia Butterfly Hill.

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'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.

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

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

I inherited my father's insatiable desire to meet all the beautiful girls in the world.

When I was younger, I used to hate Germany. I hated the country, the people, the language, the culture, everything! But over the years I've grown to really appreciate the German people.

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

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.

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

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.

What I've realized over the years is that I have some pretty good friends.

It seems like the chaos of this world is accelerating, but so is the beauty in the consciousness of more and more people.