I love the spirits that are inside me, I don't give a fuck about this body. (London, 2001)

If it wasn't for Anthony Kiedis, I wouldn't have written any of these songs for the really last two years. (New York, 2001)

I don't care if what you think I am is really what I am. What you think I am is way more important than what i really am. (London, 2001)

My songs I write them like I play them for one person and then when I see so many people going out to it, I feel so happy. You know how big you all are, everyone of you is like an hundred spirits to me. (London, 2001)

Somebody who spends their days absorbed in this music that I've been making with the chili peppers and in my solo music that I make, I know that's having a good impact on them. Like I know it's coming from a completly healthy place. I know the spirits that helped me do it are wonderful parts of the universe (...) And I just know that's healthy for people. (Off The Map DVD, 2001)

I never had to get a job or anything 'cause I ended up Joining the Chili Peppers like the day my dad told me he wouldn't give me anymore money. (BTM, 1999)

I don't think that death is a big deal. I don't care if I die right now. (VPRO interview 1994)

Bi-sexuality and drugs were the two things in life that I related to rock 'n' roll and my over-all image of it when I was about 9 or 10 years old when I got into punk rock. That was the whole world that I felt within me that wasn't going on around me at school. That made me feel like I had no reason to exist. (VPRO Interview, 1994)

Everybody's parents make some sort of mistakes when developing a child's sexuality and their brain. What's considered smart to the world and parents is like memorizing things and doing good in school. And what I've come to find is what smart is, is being able to trip out. That's what smart is. Not just memorizing things a monkey can do that. So drugs just help that. (VPRO interview 1994)