Quotes

"I have a funny feeling that were just getting started. Um, which is pretty bizare because we've been together forever." - Anthony Kiedis

"Thos guys were my real brothers you know? Those were the ones who I spilled my guts out, those were the ones I cryed to, those were the ones I poured my heart out to." - Flea on the rhcp

"He just made a mistake. He found the wrong drugs at the wrong time. It's just fucked up." - Flea on Hillel

"I just thought he was going to die.I mean, I was sure John was going to die." - Flea

"You know we love each other, we were like family, and, uh, because of that we were able to create this band." - Anthony Kiedis

"If he said to take your shirt off and spin it in the air everyone in the audience would do it. To me that was like wow. How does he get everyone to listen to him?" - Gwen Stefani on Anthony Kiedis

"And I read it to them and I sang it to them and I probablly sang it out of tune with 3 different keys at the same time but they heard what I was trying to express and instead of laughing they both went to their instruments and started playing." - Anthony Kiedis on Under The Bridge

"Hillel and I, and Flea we were really a trio, and we just spent alot of time listening to music, getting high, talking about life, going to the mountains, going to ocemity, going on back packing trips and just really becoming mutual friends." - Anthony Kiedis

"And literally a month later I'm standing on the rocks in Malibu wearing a sock. Hey, I'm stanind on the rocks wearing a sock on my (laughs) I'm in the band now." - Chad Smith

"He's deffinitly a genius. He's got that mad scientist guitar art, love, spirit genius. But he doesn't know how to drive a car. He doesn't have a credit card, you know, he doesn't function in the same road as the rest of the world. Which is what makes him great." - Anthony Kiedis on John

"We knew that we weren't done yet. We knew that the life of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, you know, still had un tapped creative enrgey that we didn't want to waste." - Anthony Kiedis on continuing after Hillel

"All the people I've seen no body's like those three and they just found each other and it was fate." - James Slovak on Hillel, Anthony and Flea

"When we atrted doing drugs we never thought, you know, oh this is dangerous it could kill us." - Anthony Kiedis

"It was the best thing ever being embraced by George Clinton, such a prolific force in the history of music, you know, in this century one of the best liked us." - Anthony Kiedis

"He told me he was thinking of heroin again and I begged him not to do it. And uh, I told him it was like Russian Roulette, you know, spinning the barrel he could die at any time an there was a big pause and he said I was right. And that was like actually the first tim he said I love you. I said to him I said lets start hanging out more often, lets start doing things together and he said deffinitly, deffinitly, and I didnt have the chance ecause after that, you know." - James Slovak on Hillel

"Damn drugs. Music is my destiny. Even if I don't necessarily feel it now I know soon this experience will make me stronger." - Entry from Hillel Slovak's journal

"The night he called me and said I love you he knew he was going to do heroin that night. He was ashamed I'm pretty sure he was like, how did I get wrapped up in this drug." - James Slovak on Hillel

"I would have told my mom if I had a second chance." - James Slovak on keeping Hillel's addiction a secret

"It really ended up sinking it's teeth into me. I started buying the lie." - Anthony Kiedis on heroin

"I thought I'd lost a friend forever and I didn't want John to die. So I prayed for him, don't let John die." - Anthony Kiedis

"I think that if Hillel could look down and see what were doing today that he would be incredibly proud and happy for us because even though he never got to experience this aspect of the dream, I think he'd be down for it." - Anthony Kiedis

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