I find that the best way to do things is to constantly move forward and to never doubt anything and keep moving forward, if you make a mistake say you made a mistake.
You just never know when somebody's gonna die. It could happen at any moment so you've got to really treat everybody that way. Just really let everybody know how you feel about them.
Everything's very perfectly balanced; for all the horrible things in the world there's lots of good things.
My religious point of view is something I can't talk about. It goes against my belief system to talk publicly about my own spiritual beliefs.
For me it's important to be in balance. To not let fear get in the way of things, to not worry so much about protecting yourself all the time.
I'm not interested in forcing my music on people, and that's what the whole music industry nowadays is based on is forcing stations to play it, forcing people to listen to it.
I think the feelings in my music were suggested to me before I even had the ability to play music.
As far as my solo record, I don't want a gold record or anything, I'm happy to be small and to have the people appreciate the music who really like me for being me.
I'm not interested in meeting people's expectations, and I'm not interested in pleasing people.
I would say a lot of the emotion in what I do is a sort of a thankfulness for those energies being around, because there's been points in my life when they weren't around, and it's a real sort of miserable existence.
In the Chili Peppers I'm a part of that world in a pretty big world and that's just the way it is.
For me, theory has always opened things up to where I can walk into a room and just by hearing something I know exactly where to go on the guitar. I have a better time playing because I have a variety of colors to bring to the table.
What really helps me is being able to record my albums at home - I have more fun experimenting that way, as opposed to working with an engineer, in which case I have to deal with the humiliation of doing take after take, and that can get frustrating.
I write songs because I have to write them, and if I didn't I'd be doing some other kind of music that didn't require a song.
And this whole period of time of gradually working at being a better guitar player and songwriter have gradually led me to the point where I feel I'm doing a clearer representation of the thing that I've been feeling inside me since I was four years old.
Rock music is electronic music, dependent entirely on electronic circuitry and amplification.
The main thing experience has taught me is that one has to sort of hone their relationship to time, you know.
I don't want to be on the radio. I don't want to be on Mtv.
I just feel like the songs that come out are the songs that come.
Yeah, I really like being alive. But I definitely don't have any intentions as an artist.
