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 would say a lot of the emotion in what I do is a sort of a thankfulness for those energies being around, because there's been points in my life when they weren't around, and it's a real sort of miserable existence.

I think you get people taking things to excess in all fields, doctors, lawyers - -it happens to all kinds of people.

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

I think the feelings in my music were suggested to me before I even had the ability to play music.

Right now my taste is going more for things that are organic where the people are using all the sonic possibilities in interesting ways.