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

Anybody who's a guitar player that's spent that time with another guitar player, there's nothing better than that.

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

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.

Mainly, I don't like it when music is made solely to impress people or in order to please business people; it doesn't sound good to me. If you're making music in order to become famous or loved by the masses that's not what I'm about. When somebody's making music for the wrong reasons, I hear it right away.

I find that the best way to do things is to constantly move forward and to never doubt anything and keep moving forward, if you make a mistake say you made a mistake.