I think kids are very impressionable and, whether you like it or not, you become impressed upon by your parents.
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Scar Tissue
Now in paperback, the New York Times bestseller by one of rock's most provocative figures Scar Tissue is Anthony Kiedis's searingly honest memoir of a life spent in the fast lane. In 1983, four self-described "knuckleheads" bur
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The sad thing is, people don't want to believe that the person they're in love with is out of his mind, drinking and using, so if you give them even half an excuse, they're going to want to believe it.
It seems like the chaos of this world is accelerating, but so is the beauty in the consciousness of more and more people.
I was withering away, mentally, spiritually, physically, creatively- everything was fading out.
We used 'I love you' like an apology for the things we couldn’t give each other.
One of the techniques they teach to get rid of a resentment toward somebody is to pray for him or her to get everything that you want for yourself in life-to be loved, to be successful, to be healthy, to be rich, to be wonderful, to be happy, to be alive with the light and the love of the universe.…
When you realize that there's a name and a description for this condition that you thought was insanity, you've identified the problem, and now you can do something about it.
Music itself was color-blind but the media and the radio stations segregate it based on their perceptions of the artists.
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.
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 was starting to come to grips with the fact that I had created a lot of pain and suffering around me, not just within me.
It started when we were little kids. Free spirits, but already tormented by our own hands given to us by our parents.
There's a peculiar thing that happens every time you get clean. You go through this sensation of rebirth. There's something intoxicating about the process of the comeback, and that becomes an element in the whole cycle of addiction. Once you've beaten yourself down with cocaine and heroin, and you m…
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.
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 cor…
…And we used ‘I love you’ like an apology for the things we couldn’t give each other.
Time and distance have a way of playing tricks with your best intentions.
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.
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.
…And we used ‘I love you’ like an apology for the things we couldn’t give each other.