When I smile at the audience, I'm not smiling because I was told that you're supposed to smile to the audience. I smile because they're all smiling at me, and it's a great feeling to see all these happy people out there, and it makes me happy to see them happy.

I never feel like I'm running out of ideas, because it is clear to me - music is infinite

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 try to put the same spirit into that that I put into any other music endeavor I'm involved in.

It means basically I'm using the synthesizer more to change the sounds of other things rather than to use it as the source of the sound.

People fall into patterns at fast speeds, when really, to have a clear musical thought - the kind of musical thought that makes a melody work - our brains just can't think that fast. At a certain point, you're going on automatic.

Music is energy, and energy is the single most important form of it in the world. Without energy, there is no life. The only difference between a dead person and a live person is the energy, the electricity flowing inside their system, and that's what makes music.