179 Quotes by John Frusciante

But I think I know just as many creative people who’ve never taken drugs in their life as I do who have taken a lot of drugs.

Music has always carried me through times of loneliness. So when I make music, I like it to make people who listen to it feel like they have a friend who reveals something personal to them, rather than trying to be like a god up on a pedestal.

I never feel like I’m running out of ideas, because it is clear to me – music is infinite.

I write songs because I have to write them, and if I didn’t I’d be doing some other kind of music that didn’t require a song.

Music is energy, and energy is the single most important form of it in the world. Without energy, there is no life. The only difference between a dead person and a live person is the energy, the electricity flowing inside their system, and that’s what makes music.

As far as my solo record, I don’t want a gold record or anything, I’m happy to be small and to have the people appreciate the music who really like me for being me.

Everything is eternal Nothingness does not exist No thing has ever become nothing And nothing has never become something What is has always been and will always be.

Dream that you died It takes you out of your mind The black walls of space Take me all the way.

Pot put me in a position where I could walk far away from my playing and hear it in the second person. It helped me step away from myself. I stopped seeing the guitar as a thing I’m holding in my hands and started seeing it as a thing that’s at one with outer space and nothingness.