The juxtaposition of words - the color, feeling, and sound of the words together - has as much to do with the story as the narrative itself does.

Music doesn't solve your problems..but allows you to dance all over them

Going up north with the redwoods and driving along the coast, it's got everything, man. It's got the desert, the mountains, and the ocean. It's beautiful.

Its very sort of spontaneous and organic, not a preconceived sort of jamming. Now we record everything, cause sometimes you'll forget, you know, 'what was that thing again?' So we record everything.

I'm a little more of a lead instrument in the Meatbats.

I just try to approach and serve the music in the way that I think is right for the band I'm in at the time.

We always feel pretty creative as far as writing songs. We write them together; we just get in a room, or on occasion in Flea's garage. We just sort of improvise, like jazz musicians.