213 Quotes by Anthony Kiedis

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

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.

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

I was withering away, mentally, spiritually, physically, creatively- everything was fading out.

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

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

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.

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.

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