But I think I know just as many creative people who've never taken drugs in their life as I do who have taken a lot of drugs.

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 write lyrics. I play the guitar. If the rest of the band had to do my schedule, they would be dead

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

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

That's what I spend most of my time doing, breathing a lot. I like air.

Make sure you stay in touch with beauty instead of letting the ugliness of the world corrupt your soul