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Anthony Kiedis (/ˈkiːdɪs/ KEE-diss; born November 1, 1962) is an American musician who is the lead singer and lyricist of the band Red Hot Chili Peppers, which he has fronted since its conception in 1983. Kiedis and his fellow band members were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2012. Kiedis spent his youth in Grand Rapids, Michigan with his mother before moving, shortly before his twelfth birthday, to Hollywood to live with his father. While attending Fairfax High School, Kiedis developed close friendships with fellow students Flea and Hillel Slovak, who at the time were members of a band called Anthym. After high school, Kiedis began taking classes at UCLA, but dropped out during the beginning of his sophomore year.

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

Artist, Attached, Ditties, Littles, My Own

I have to laugh at myself.

Laughing, Laugh

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.

Energy, Kids, Kind, Opposite, Opposites, Thinking

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

Consciousness, Getting High, High, Higher, Levels

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.

Mistake, People, Rare, Reality, Take, Throw

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.

Call, Getting High, Godlike, Heaven, Insanity, Pleasure

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.

Away, Beautiful, Let, Letting Go, Running, Took

Well, I get excited about music.

Excited, Wells, Music

My guys studied music from a young age and I did not so I think, like, adding the idiot to the table of very talented musicians gave us a unique rub.

Guy, Musicians, Talented, Thinking, Unique, Young

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

Band, Bounty, Music, Opportunity, Worry, Young

I never felt like dying was a good idea.

Dying, Felt, Good Ideas, Ideas, Like

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.

Fun, Know, Nothing, Realizing, Thinking

I would consider him definitely one of my very best friends and I know he feels the same about me. We have a lot of love and respect.

Feels, Friend Love, Love, Love And Respect, Respect

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

Actually, Art, Mind, Think, Thinking

. . . whatever I ended up doing with my life,I wanted to people feel the way this music was making me feel.

Ended, Feels, People, Way

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

Figuring, Littles, Selfish, Think, Thinking

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

Long, Material, Materials, Probably, Term

I think dying is the ultimate high.

Dying, High, Think, Thinking, Ultimate

Why should we think nudity is such a revolting thing in a land where there is so much violence and corruption and racism and hatred? Nudity seems like a welcome relief from all the bullshit in life.

Hatred, Land, Like, Racism, Thinking, Violence

We took off our clothes, and we were basically in a sphere of love and light and warmth, and the rest of the world disappeared. It was better than I ever could have dreamed, it was that thing I had been looking for, that love mixed with the rapture of sex.

Clothes, Disappeared, Light, Rapture, Rest, Sex

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