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

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.

Jazz can be so serious, no sense of humor.

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

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