Anthony Kiedis Quotes

The face of "evil" is always the face of total need. A dope fiend is a man in total need of dope. Beyond a certain frequency need knows absolutely no limit or control. In the words of total need: "Wouldn't you?" Yes you would. You would lie, cheat, inform on your friends, steal, do anything to satisfy total need. Because you would be in a state of total sickness, total possession, and not in a position to act in any other way. Dope fiends are sick people who cannot act other than they do. A rabid dog cannot choose but bite.

When you can stop you don't want to, and when you want to stop, you can't.

I was carrying a beautiful alcoholic conflagration around with me. The thing fed on its own heat and flamed the fiercer. There was no time, in all my waking time, that I didn't want a drink. I began to anticipate the completion of my daily thousand words by taking a drink when only five hundred words were written. It was not long until I prefaced the beginning of the thousand words with a drink.

Everybody kind of understands, Oh yeah you take drugs and it does something to your brain and then you can't stop. It's easier to describe that shame, that horrible feeling of not being able to control your own life.

Gollum is entirely based on the notion of addiction. The way that the ring pervades him, makes him craving, lustful, depletes him physically, psychologically and mentally.

I have an addictive personality, so when I like something, I really want it all.

Addiction is when you can't get enough of what you don't want any more.

I can't be any more addicted to it than I already am,"Jamie said slowly, as though he'd rehearsed this, and then waiting for a cue Nick obviously had no intention of giving." Think about crack!" Jamie added, clearly struck by insperation. "Yes! It's like I'm a crack addict, and you're my friend the drug dealer who gives me crack for free, and I know you're just trying to be a good friend, but every time I think 'Wow, this crack might be a little bit of a problem for me,' you're there to say, 'Have some more delicious crack.' Am I making sense?" Nick stared."Hardly ever in your life.

If there was a pill that allowed you to drink and not get drunk, an alcoholic would go "What happens if you take two?"

I feel bad for people who have never been addicted to anything, because they're the real losers. You want to know why? Because they don't know what it's like to really want something - and then get it again and again and again.

Addiction - When you can give up something any time, as long as it's next Tuesday.

He was my drug, and I had no desire to kick the habit.

The trouble with addiction is that you can park the car but you can never switch off the engine or stop yourself from hearing the revs.

I wrote like a junkie. I had to have my daily fix.

I'm an addict for underwear.

Addiction is a really hard thing to kick.

It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present.

If you're an addict, it controls your life and your life becomes uncontrollable. It's boring and painful, filling your system with something that makes you stare at your shoes for six hours.

I think golf is literally an addiction. I'm surprised there's not Golf Anonymous.

Junk is the ideal product... the ultimate merchandise. No sales talk necessary. The client will crawl through a sewer and beg to buy.

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.

Passion is all but soft, it's not tender, it's violence to which you get hooked by pleasure.

It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.

It is like an addiction: I get addicted to performing and touring. I get itchy and think, 'I've got to do this.'

Addicts are hard workers.