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.

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.

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

Sometimes it takes just living your life a certain way to be able to open yourself to the rhythm of the cosmos.

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 wanted all my solos to be something you could sing along with

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?