I'm very aware of the chemistry. It's something you can't take for granted. I'm very thankful for it and I recognise the power of its reality in all of our lives. Some people don't and it's a mistake not to because people throw away god-given special chemistry that's very rare, very hard to find.

I had to educate him that there was no such thing as writer's block, that writers write when they write, and when they don't, they don't.

I think people that have fear that, 'Oh if I have a kid I won't be able to do this and I won't be able to do that.' It's kind of the opposite. It really gives you energy. It makes people better.

My father rebelled ferociously against his conservative upbringing where his father physically abused him.

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

Once you've seen a solution to the disease that's tearing you apart, relapsing is never fun.

Every time you empty your vessel of that energy, fresh new energy comes flooding in.