I'm being a dad and a good husband.

In some of the L.A. clubs, people can act too cool to get into your music. That can get to be a bit much.

I was in every band class I could get in, like after school jazz band and marching band, and that's where I really learned to read music from elementary all the way through junior high and high school.

Flea and Anthony are into funk, like old school Meters and stuff like that.

I took a private lesson, but it didn't really work out, so I went back to playing along with records. That's really the thing that got me into playing a lot - getting excited about playing along with my favorite bands like Zeppelin and Black Sabbath.

I just love to play and I get a chance to play with other musicians and I jump on it.

Sometimes one of us will have a riff or a bass line from home but it really gels when we come together. We really have a strong special chemistry that we take advantage of when we get together.