Anthony Kiedis left his then-girlfriend Ione Skye alone at an abortion clinic because he "was running from his feelings," she has claimed.

Nick Cave explains how his Red Hot Chili Peppers diss became a meme and how he and Flea have since become friends.

I was unable to fully grasp at that point in my life, that Flea was a human being of an entirely different calibre”

There’s a famous Nick Cave quote that gets passed around whenever anyone wants to dismiss the music of a certain long-running Los Angeles funk-metal act: “I’m forever near a stereo saying, ‘What the fuck is this garbage?

Actress Ione Skye has claimed her ex-boyfriend Anthony Kiedis ‘guiltily’ left her on the curb outside the abortion clinic when she got pregnant at 17. The Red Hot Chili Peppers frontman, who was 25 at the time, allegedly paid for the procedure but refused to go into the clinic with her.

Now, 25 years later, Cage has stepped forward to reveal the burden he’s had to carry, the surprising, long-lasting outcome of his riposte and just what happened when Flea – the famously energetic bassist from the Red Hot Chili Peppers – came face to face with a bear…

Cave was asked about the quote in the latest entry for his Red Hand Files Q&A website. He chalked it up to being a "troublemaker, a shit-stirrer, feeling most at ease in the role of a societal irritant" in his younger days.

Anthony Kiedis had a turbulent relationship with actress Ione Skye when she was 16 and he was 24, with Ione going for an abortion alone a year into their romance

Nick Cave has addressed comments he made 25 years ago about US band the Red Hot Chili Peppers. The Australian musician said the "offhand and somewhat uncharitable remark" has "followed me around for the last quarter-century",