I'm not interested in meeting people's expectations, and I'm not interested in pleasing people.

For me it's important to be in balance. To not let fear get in the way of things, to not worry so much about protecting yourself all the time.

Rock music is electronic music, dependent entirely on electronic circuitry and amplification.

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 a solo moves forward the way a song does, because it's reflective of the chords that I'm considering as I'm soloing, and at the same time I'm going as much out on a limb as Frank Zappa used to, in terms of just going crazy on the instrument.

Music is my life. The things that people do don't seem interesting to me at all - going out to bars, carrying on, going to parties. What the hell do people do? Shop? Play golf? Have vacations? That doesn't seem interesting to me. To me, my job as a musician is to be a good receptor. A lot of music comes through me.

I think you get people taking things to excess in all fields, doctors, lawyers - -it happens to all kinds of people.