My religious point of view is something I can't talk about. It goes against my belief system to talk publicly about my own spiritual beliefs.

Enclosure, upon its completion, was the record which represented the achievement of all the musical goals I had been aiming at for the previous 5 years. It was recorded simultaneously with Black Knights' Medieval Chamber, and as different as the two albums appear to be, they represent one investigative creative thought process. What I learned from one fed directly into the other. Enclosure is presently my last word on the musical statement which began with PBX.

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 don’t pay attention to the world. I just have the art I like and the music I like and for me that’s the whole world

Because I'm pure inside, the music that comes out of me is a life-giving thing. Like water.

Something like trying to protect yourself all the time, things like trying to outwit fate. Those things can be the worst thing you can do for yourself.

If anything unfolds, it's supposed to