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 am very happy to be alive. There is much fun to be had. Music, movies, books, paintings, drawingsI hope you have these things where you are. If you have them, what does the real world matter anyway?

I'm not interested in meeting people's expectations, and I'm not interested in pleasing people.

Mainly, I don't like it when music is made solely to impress people or in order to please business people; it doesn't sound good to me. If you're making music in order to become famous or loved by the masses that's not what I'm about. When somebody's making music for the wrong reasons, I hear it right away.

I think an analogue synth is an extension of the natural world.

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.

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