The drive to create music that is pure is my highest priority. Sometimes I'll get extremely technical, and other times I'll just kind of go with the gods of music.

I would say a lot of the emotion in what I do is a sort of a thankfulness for those energies being around, because there's been points in my life when they weren't around, and it's a real sort of miserable existence.

When the intellectual part of guitar playing overrides the spiritual, you don't get to extreme heights.

Right now my taste is going more for things that are organic where the people are using all the sonic possibilities in interesting ways.

Because I'm pure inside, the music that comes out of me is a life-giving thing. Like water.

In the Chili Peppers I'm a part of that world in a pretty big world and that's just the way it is.

I think the feelings in my music were suggested to me before I even had the ability to play music.