It's about the music, it's not about just showing people what you can do with a piece of wood with strings on it

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.

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.

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

Expression is when you are at one with nothingness.

Music is energy, and energy is the single most important form of it in the world. Without energy, there is no life. The only difference between a dead person and a live person is the energy, the electricity flowing inside their system, and that's what makes music.

What's gone will never come back, but it exists when you think of it.