For me, living and making music, they're one thing. It's not like a job that I go to a studio to do, or a chore that I have to get myself in the mood to do, or something. It's the thing that I need to do every day.

My religious point of view is something I can't talk about. It goes against my belief system to talk publicly about my own spiritual beliefs.

The point is, I'm weird, but I never felt weird.

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 feel like I'd like to continue putting out records and start putting them out more rapidly than I have until now and for me if I can keep selling the records to the fans that already like me that's fine.

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

And this whole period of time of gradually working at being a better guitar player and songwriter have gradually led me to the point where I feel I'm doing a clearer representation of the thing that I've been feeling inside me since I was four years old.