Music itself was color-blind but the media and the radio stations segregate it based on their perceptions of the artists.

The good news is that by the second year, those cravings were about as half as frequent, and by the third year, half as much again. I'm still a little bent, a little crooked, but all things crooked, I can't complain. After all those years of all kinds of abuse and crashing into trees at eighty miles an hour and jumping off buildings and living through overdoses and liver disease, I feel better now than I did ten years ago. I might have some scar tissue, but that's alright, I'm still making progress.

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.

I'm impressed with a 90 year old woman who's still out and about.

Changing and inventing new things is great. That's what we like to do.

I know whatever my father did, in his own way, he still loved me.