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A certain amount of volatility and drama can me healthy and keep things fun and interesting if you're willing at any moment during a fight to say, 'This means nothing. I love you, let's forget about it.

Adolescence is such a fun time in your life, because you think you know it all, and you haven’t gotten to the point where you realize that you know almost nothing.

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

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

A rock star does not age!

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Every true artist is at war with the world.

...for the first time in my life, a voice went off in my head:'You have no power over what happens in your life. Drugs dictate exactly what you're going to do. You've taken your hands off the steering wheel, and you're going wherever the drug world takes you.' That had never changed. The feeling would well up inside of me, and no matter how much I loved my girl or my band or my friends or my family, when that siren song 'Go get high now' started playing in my head, I was off.

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.

Give her the continent and she wanted the hemisphere.

Having a moment of clarity was one thing; I'd had moments like that before. It had to be followed with a dedicated push of daily exercise. It's a trite axiom, but practice DOES make perfect. If you want to be a strong swimmer or an accomplished musician, you have to practice. It's the same with sobriety, though the stakes are higher. If you don't practice your program every day, you're putting yourself in a position where you could fly out of the orbit one more time.

Honestly, I'm really just a teddy bear.

I didn't have to go all the way to India for spiritual enlightenment. The blue-collar spirituality of everyday life was right in front of me, it was in every nook and cranny if I wanted to seek it, but I had chosen to ignore it.

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.

I don't even bother trying to picture a perfect world, because I don't think that perfection is something to strive for. I prefer imperfection. That's what makes things special. You know, things that change

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.

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.

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

I find it hard to meet the right woman as people assume I'm a certain type of person - which I'm not.

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

I had not had any drugs for 5 years but then I relapsed again. I have also smoked nearly everything. Every day it was a battle to recover, which I fought for my son and myself.

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.

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.

I had to sit with my senses. This clear, beautiful intuition took over. I knew exactly how I felt, and I wasn't confused or clouded or compromised. I realized that none of my feelings had diminished, but I might have to lose someone I truly loved. I didn't want to run away from Claire, but I knew drug addiction was strong enough that I had to be willing, if need be, to let go of the person I'd just fallen in love with.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I'm very aware of the chemistry. It's something you can't take for granted. I'm very thankful for it and I recognise the power of its reality in all of our lives. Some people don't and it's a mistake not to because people throw away god-given special chemistry that's very rare, very hard to find.

I never felt like dying was a good idea.

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.

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

In the middle of the last century there was a reason to go to war. This time around the war was a really bad idea and I think the only people that benefited from it were Halliburton and people that made money from it, but that's not an excuse to have a war. Killing American kids so Halliburton can make money is not a righteous reason to go to war.

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

I stopped hating and started just being. My whole life, I had been the most defensive person you'd meet, unable to tolerate any criticism. But now I started listening and being.

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.

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

I think dying is the ultimate high...

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

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.