Everything's very perfectly balanced; for all the horrible things in the world there's lots of good things.

As far as my solo record, I don't want a gold record or anything, I'm happy to be small and to have the people appreciate the music who really like me for being me.

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

But for me if I'm gonna read about something I'd rather read a pamphlet or the instructions to a synthesizer than a book on Buddhism.

I just feel like the songs that come out are the songs that come.

But I have been avoiding talking about what I'm doing now because it's frustrating for people to hear about things that aren't available yet.

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