Anthony Kiedis Quotes

People are always so boring when they band together. You have to be alone to develop all the idiosyncrasies that make a person interesting.

Individuality is very important for a full human life.

Every man had his personal habits, passions, and impulses toward goodness, beauty, and truth.

The greater a man's talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.

A name can't begin to encompass the sum of all her parts. But that's the magic of names, isn't it? That the complex, contradictory individuals we are can be called up complete and whole in another mind through the simple sorcery of a name.

Everybody is different. I can think of three black men I've dated and they couldn't be more different from each other.

Perfection, in anything, is unbearably dull. Myself, I prefer a touch of imperfection.

You know, you have to do homework. You listen to who they are, what they do. I also compare it to designing clothes for people. If somebody brings in Tilda Swinton, you're not going to give her the same dress you'd give Gabourey Sidibe. Everybody looks different in a different line, a different color. The same thing with the way people speak.

Everyone is special in their own way.

If I have any talent at all, it is not for doing but for being.

We're all crazy. What's your specific form of crazy?

In the course of evolution nature has gone to endless trouble to see that every individual is unlike every other individual....Physically and mentally, each one of us is unique. Any culture which, in the interests of efficiency or in the name of some political or religious dogma, seeks to standardize the human individual, commits an outrage against man's biological nature.

You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else.

The difference between one man and another is not mere ability... it is energy.

I think the fact that I am gay is about the 47th most interesting thing about me.

There are men who are wanting in the comparative, they as a rule are the most interesting.

Human beings look so different from each other, voices are so different, everything about us is so individual, and that's so exciting and juicy and appealing, and we're attached to these things and they're so fascinating and beautiful - I don't just mean model-beautiful, but all the individual forms that people can take.

Each human personality is like a piece of music, having an individual tone and a rhythm of its own.

No one's fingerprints are exactly the same as anyone else's.

I didn't choose to be the guy who talks about the mundane - it's just who I am and it's what kind of works for me.

Style, personality - deliberately adopted and therefore a mask - is the only escape from the hot-faced bargainers and money-changers.

Along with the differences that abide in each of us, there is also in each of us a maverick, the darling stubborn one who won't listen, who insists, who chooses preference or the spirited guess over yardsticks or even history. I suspect this maverick is somewhat what the soul is, or at least that the soul lives close by and companionably with its agitating and inquiring force.

I am startled when people are themselves and are not my thoughts of them.

People may be said to resemble not the bricks of which a house is built, but the pieces of a picture puzzle, each differing in shape, but matching the rest, and thus bringing out the picture.

All of us take pride and pleasure in the fact that we are unique, but I'm afraid that when all is said and done the police are right: it all comes down to fingerprints.