I've wanted to feel pleasure to the point of insanity. They call it getting high, because it's wanting to know that higher level, that godlike level. You want to touch the heavens, you want to feel glory and euphoria, but the trick is it takes work. You can't buy it, you can't get it on a street corner, you can't steal it or inject it or shove it up your ass, you have to earn it.

Peligro the former drummer of the punk rock band Dead Kennedys was a friend of John Frusciante an eighteen-year-old guitarist and avid Red Hot Chili Peppers fan. On Mother's Milk (1989) Kiedis wrote more melody-driven songs rather than the basic rhythm and beat style of funk. We found each other and it turned out to be the longest-lasting friendship of my life.

In 2004 he publiAnthony Kiedisd an autobiography entitled Scar Tissue. S.