John Frusciante Quotes

One of the huge imbalances in life is the disparity between your daily existence, with its routines and habits, and the dream you have within yourself of some extraordinarily satisfying way of living.

I've never had a plan for the future.

I don't want to die with regrets. I like living and experiencing and feeling the whole lot.

If you aren't having no fun, die, because you're running a worthless program, far as I'm concerned.

I'm 47, You learn life is short and it's not worth doing something if you don't enjoy it.

People spend a lifetime thinking about how they would really like to live. I asked my friends and no one seems to know very clearly. To me it's very clear now. I wish my life could have been like the years when I was writing 'Love in the Time of Cholera.'

I think one of the big mistakes people make is to have fame as one of their main goals. That is the biggest mistake when you're creating art.

You have to be able to wake up every day and be happy with what your decision in life is, and that's why I never recruit.

If anyone were to ask me what I want out of life I would say- the opportunity for doing something useful, for in no other way, I am convinced, can true happiness be attained.

The choice is yours: Do you want to exist, or do you want to live?

I haven't really made plans for the future; I'm just enjoying the moment, going with the flow. I haven't really had time to mortify myself thinking about the future.

We have a lot of depressed people in the world because they don't know what their purpose is in life.

I wanted to enjoy my life and challenge myself.

I'm not like a preacher or philosopher, but at the end of the day, life is about happiness.

I could have probably built a great career in management consulting, but one of the insights that I had early on is that just because you're good at something doesn't mean that you should continue to do it. Somewhere in my heart of hearts I knew it wasn't what I wanted to do.

I love the other side of life, I like to do what interests me. People talk about bucket lists - I hate that. You might as well call it the coffin list.

My ambition was never to make a lot of money. It wasn't to travel around the world. I was really just struggling to make the best pictures I could make.

I don't care if I go broke. I don't care about all that stuff. I just want to know that I did everything I wanted to do.

You have to know what you want out of your work or out of your life.

Every day of my life is a dream goal.

I went through a phase after we won the World Cup of 'what am I going to do with my life.'

I had fame and wealth and things that are supposed to make you happy, but I wasn't happy, because there's no importance on having a fulfilling life. So in my mid-40s, that was my pursuit - making films that interested me, films that I would like to go see.

Whoever we are, we have to carve something out of our lives. I would like to be on my deathbed going, 'I've enjoyed that. I went through the rollercoaster of it, but I've appreciated it.'

Life is too short to be lived badly.

A happy life is impos­si­ble; the best that a man can attain is a heroic life.