What I've realized over the years is that I have some pretty good friends.

I was a little self-centered gutter punk in the early 1980s and all I wanted to do was diss everybody.

We didn't think about it but we never wanted to sound like anybody else.

We'll have these people hang out with us while we're doing our touring, and talk to them and let them speak their piece to the world.

I like the idea of defying the convention of what it is to be in your 40s, or 50s, or 60s.

I know I'm in the band and everything but sometimes I just have to rock out to the John Frusciante Experience.

Death by evaporation. May the saltwater wind that gets shot out of a barreling wave blow me away like an old puffy dandelion into the sky.