What I do on my solo stuff is just the most natural version of who I am, and Iโm trying to represent the feelings that Iโm feeling as purely as possible
John FruscianteI'm not interested in forcing my music on people, and that's what the whole music industry nowadays is based on is forcing stations to play it, forcing people to listen to it.
John FruscianteI don't have an extensive background in theory, but the amount of it that I've learned, I've applied, so I have a vocabulary of melodic and rhythmic relationships. And that's all theory is - it's symbols to help you identify those relationships.
John FruscianteI consider my music to be Progressive Synth Pop, which says nothing about what it sounds like, but does describe my basic approach.
John FruscianteWhat I have to say to an inhabitant of the Earth in one hundred years is similar to what I have to say to the present inhabitants of Earth. To be creative.
John FruscianteWeโre really lucky to live in a planet that has so much music. We could be living in some bland planet that had no music, no movies, no books, just a bunch of people going around having jobs and things like that. To me that would be a really miserable place, you know, to me music is what makes this world a really fun place to be, you know?
John Frusciante