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

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'm going through a phase where I'm really accomplishing a lot of things and in that is everything I've learned.

You are free. Close your eyes. Open your mind. Let this music in, and you will see that this is true

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.

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.

I write songs because I have to write them, and if I didn't I'd be doing some other kind of music that didn't require a song.