Top 44 Quotes by Anthony Kiedis

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

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

I'm not a true vegan.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.