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

Once you've seen a solution to the disease that's tearing you apart, relapsing is never fun.

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.

To be 26 years old and lose your left heart ventricle was probably the most dramatic thing that's ever happened to me in my life.

We didn't think about it but we never wanted to sound like anybody else.

I know I'm in the band and everything but sometimes I just have to rock out to the John Frusciante Experience

When I looked into her eyes, I saw an invisible spirit of something that I already loved.

I'm still a little bent, a little crooked, but all things considered, I can't complain.

I'm a crier, let me know if you need some tips. I could cry every day, in a good way.

Sometimes, out of really horrible things come really beautiful things.

It was like the Wizard of Oz had spoken, and what he said was too ludicrous to take seriously.

Every true artist is at war with the world.

T's so lonely when you don't even know yourself.. it's so lonely.

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

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

I'm an artist and I get very attached to my own little ditties.

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

Yeah baby, give me some of that rancid yak milk.

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.

All summer long; we'll be playing the festivals. We'll be Reading, we'll be Leeds, we'll be around.

That was how we wanted to play, majestic and chaotic.

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

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

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

My guys studied music from a young age and I did not so I think, like, adding the idiot to the table of very talented musicians gave us a unique rub.

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

I have to laugh at myself.

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

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

Whatever I ended up doing with my life,I wanted to people feel the way this music was making me feel.

This Life is More than Just a read through.

Music itself was color-blind but the media and the radio stations segregate it based on their perceptions of the artists.

Death by evaporation. May the saltwater wind that gets shot out of a barreling wave blow me away like an old puffy dandelion into the sky.

If that's what you're thinking, then don't even question it. Go let your freak flag fly, brother.

I like the idea of defying the convention of what it is to be in your 40s, or 50s, or 60s.

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

A year jammed full of adventure and misadventure, strides forward and many steps backward, another year in my topsy-turvy, Jekyll-and-Hyde existence.

Your mouth was made to suck my kiss.

When we get together to rehearse, we could write music together all day long - GOOD music.

What doesn't kill you only makes your book longer.

I plan to surf more - learn the way of the wave.

I think dying is the ultimate high.

One of the better definitions of insanity - doing the exact same thing over and over and expecting the result to be different.

I'm probably not long-term-relationship material for now.

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.

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

We've put songs out on singles and weird little packages that only the real vinyl-philes care about.

Writing music always happened for me in periods when I wasn't under the influence of mind-altering substance.

Even as the words came out of my mouth, my heart was dying a million deaths.

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

I wanted to be the best at whatever it was that was in front of me.

Give her the continent and she wanted the hemisphere.

Just the kind of girl I liked - the weirdo in the bunch.

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

As long as a person is breathing, there is hope for them.

We used to fight to the death but we tried the experiment, rolled the dice and like we got.

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

And when you're eighteen years old, it doesn't take that much provoking to get you to a place where you can't stop yourself

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.

Buddhism helps me to have a healthy relationship with my body and spirit.

She was a source of love and comfort and friendship and companionship and like-mindedness without any of the difficulties of a girlfriend

He's your best friend, he's with you day and night, he falls in love, see you next year

I never felt like dying was a good idea.

When you start putting pen to paper, you see a side of your personal truth that doesn't otherwise reveal itself in conversation or thought.