When the intellectual part of guitar playing overrides the spiritual, you don't get to extreme heights.
John FruscianteMusic 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.
John FruscianteI donโt pay attention to the world. I just have the art I like and the music I like and for me thatโs the whole world
John FruscianteWhat really helps me is being able to record my albums at home - I have more fun experimenting that way, as opposed to working with an engineer, in which case I have to deal with the humiliation of doing take after take, and that can get frustrating.
John Frusciante