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

For me my friendship with Omar Rodriguez from Mars Volta that friendship really means a lot to me because he's another creative person who works as hard as I do.

When the intellectual part of guitar playing overrides the spiritual, you don't get to extreme heights.

Expression is when you are at one with nothingness.

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.

I think a solo moves forward the way a song does, because it's reflective of the chords that I'm considering as I'm soloing, and at the same time I'm going as much out on a limb as Frank Zappa used to, in terms of just going crazy on the instrument.

It means basically I'm using the synthesizer more to change the sounds of other things rather than to use it as the source of the sound.