The Will to Death is what keeps me alive

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 try to put the same spirit into that that I put into any other music endeavor I'm involved in.

So I use a tape recorder a lot to record ideas.

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.

And if a few other people come along who discover my music because they in some natural way come across my music, cool.

All I know is that the six months when I recorded this music was the most productive time of my life, and I'll always remember it as the first time in my life that I ever felt like I was one with my dreams.