Red Hot Chili Peppers frontman Anthony Kiedis says he wants to travel the world with his young son.

The singer became a father for the first time in October 2007 when his model girlfriend Heather Christie gave birth to Everly Bear, named in part after Anthony's love of musicians the Everly Brothers.

Speaking at a special Hollywood fundraiser, Anthony said he'd love to be able to take his son on tour: "I'll take him wherever he's comfortable going, he's a part of me so I feel pretty happy taking him wherever I go."

He added: "Yeah, we're gonna check out the world together for sure."

Kiedis was attending a special gig in aid of rehab charity MusiCares.

Over the years, he's openly talked about his battle with drug addiction, and after staying clean for almost a decade the singer said it's important that people have access to support: "Life is tough and we're always looking for little short cuts to make it easier and some of us are constitutionally different to others.

"Some people drink and it takes the pressure off and it's no problem. Other people start drinking and using to take that edge off and they have a bad reaction to it, and it ends up being a bigger problem.

"I understand why people are attracted to getting loaded. I don't think it's necessarily rock and roll that has a bigger problem than other walks of life, it's just we're a little more in the limelight perhaps."