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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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“I think kids are very impressionable and, whether you like it or not, you become impressed upon by your parents.”

— Anthony Kiedis, amazon.com

Tagged: Parenting, Children Looking At Their Parents

“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.”

— Anthony Kiedis, amazon.com

Tagged: Addiction, Drugs, Alcoholism, Mental Health

“It seems like the chaos of this world is accelerating, but so is the beauty in the consciousness of more and more people.”

— Anthony Kiedis, amazon.com

Tagged: humanity, Chaos Of Life

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

— Anthony Kiedis, amazon.com

Tagged: Exhausted, Giving Up

“We used 'I love you' like an apology for the things we couldn’t give each other.”

— Anthony Kiedis, amazon.com

Tagged: I Love You, Pride, Fight, Love Quarrel

“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.…”

— Anthony Kiedis, amazon.com

Tagged: forgiveness, Forgiving, Prayers, resentment, Healing

“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.”

— Anthony Kiedis, amazon.com

Tagged: Healing, Addiction, Mental Illness

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

— Anthony Kiedis, amazon.com

Tagged: discrimination, Racial Bias, classism

“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.”

— Anthony Kiedis, amazon.com

Tagged: Transformation, Hopeful, Resilience, Survivor

“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.”

— Anthony Kiedis, amazon.com

Tagged: Cheating, Lazy, Shortcuts In Life

“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.”

— Anthony Kiedis, amazon.com

Tagged: I Hate Myself, Pain

“It started when we were little kids. Free spirits, but already tormented by our own hands given to us by our parents.”

— Anthony Kiedis, amazon.com

Tagged: Child Abuse, Bad 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…”

— Anthony Kiedis, amazon.com

Tagged: Addiction, Relapse

“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.”

— Anthony Kiedis, amazon.com

Tagged: Writing, Writer Quotes

“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…”

— Anthony Kiedis, amazon.com

Tagged: Drugs, Pleasure, Pursuit of Happiness, Life Tips

“…And we used ‘I love you’ like an apology for the things we couldn’t give each other.”

— Anthony Kiedis, amazon.com

Tagged: Apologies, Selfless Love, I Love You, True Love, Romantic

“Time and distance have a way of playing tricks with your best intentions.”

— Anthony Kiedis, amazon.com

Tagged: LDR

“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.”

— Anthony Kiedis, amazon.com

Tagged: Defensiveness, Criticism, Listening, Acceptance

“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.”

— Anthony Kiedis, amazon.com

Tagged: Adolesence, Teenage life, Young People

“…And we used ‘I love you’ like an apology for the things we couldn’t give each other.”

— Anthony Kiedis, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, Apology, Sadness, Inability