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.
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.
When I smile at the audience, I’m not smiling because I was told that you’re supposed to smile to the audience. I smile because they’re all smiling at me, and it’s a great feeling to see all these happy people out there, and it makes me happy to see them happy...
You know this moment in time Is all my life Every day is each day that’s passed Every person alive is everyone’s who’s died.
I’m not interested in forcing my music on people, and that’s what the whole music industry nowadays is based on is forcing stations to play it, forcing people to listen to it.
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.
Dream that you died It takes you out of your mind The black walls of space Take me all the way.
I feel like I’d like to continue putting out records and start putting them out more rapidly than I have until now and for me if I can keep selling the records to the fans that already like me that’s fine.
For me my friendship with Omar Rodriguez from Mars Volta that friendship really means a lot to me because he’s another creative person who works as hard as I do.
I’m also very impressed with the best people in experimental electronic world, like Peta and Eckart Aillers and Finez and Jim O’Rourke and Oren Umbarci and Francesco Lopez. Most of them use the computer as their main instrument.
Pot put me in a position where I could walk far away from my playing and hear it in the second person. It helped me step away from myself. I stopped seeing the guitar as a thing I’m holding in my hands and started seeing it as a thing that’s at one with outer space and nothingness.
Because I’m pure inside, the music that comes out of me is a life-giving thing. Like water.
I don’t want to be on the radio. I don’t want to be on Mtv.
I write lyrics. I play the guitar. If the rest of the band had to do my schedule, they would be dead.
In the Chili Peppers I’m a part of that world in a pretty big world and that’s just the way it is.
A slave in the fields one night He’s running along Gets far enough to be a free man And he’s feeling so strong.
For me, theory has always opened things up to where I can walk into a room and just by hearing something I know exactly where to go on the guitar. I have a better time playing because I have a variety of colors to bring to the table.
Yeah, I really like being alive. But I definitely don’t have any intentions as an artist.
Well, I don’t need protection One life begins, another dies Bad timing I won’t last.
Lose yourself in the far off worlds that are right under your feet. Switch below with above all the way up into infinity. We should be thankful who we are, whether we know ourselves or not.