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

The point is, I'm weird, but I never felt weird.

For me it's important to be in balance. To not let fear get in the way of things, to not worry so much about protecting yourself all the time.

I just like to switch things up all the time. Like when it comes to singing, I try to find a different character for each song.

I consider my music to be Progressive Synth Pop, which says nothing about what it sounds like, but does describe my basic approach.

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.

I think the feelings in my music were suggested to me before I even had the ability to play music.

I still love with all my heart anything that I have ever loved in my life.

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 main thing experience has taught me is that one has to sort of hone their relationship to time, you know.

But for me if I'm gonna read about something I'd rather read a pamphlet or the instructions to a synthesizer than a book on Buddhism.

I don't want to be on the radio. I don't want to be on Mtv.

So when I feel the spirit upon me it's something I don't take it for granted, and I don't think I'm solely responsible for these things.

Pagers are my life
I try to get them in to our music as much as possible.

My music, my whole approach to the synthesizer has completely changed now.

I think an analogue synth is an extension of the natural world.

I just feel like the songs that come out are the songs that come.

That's what I spend most of my time doing, breathing a lot. I like air.

You are free. Close your eyes. Open your mind. Let this music in, and you will see that this is true

I never feel like I'm running out of ideas, because it is clear to me - music is infinite

Anybody who's a guitar player that's spent that time with another guitar player, there's nothing better than that.

I combine aspects of many styles of music and create my own musical forms by way of electronic instruments.

Yeah, I really like being alive. But I definitely don't have any intentions as an artist.

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

You don't throw your life away Going Inside You get to know who's watching you And besides you resides in your body

Everything's very perfectly balanced; for all the horrible things in the world there's lots of good things.

I'm going through a phase where I'm really accomplishing a lot of things and in that is everything I've learned.

We are all very lucky to live in a world where there is this much music.

Music is my friend, no matter where I go.

The imagination is the most real world that we know
because we each know it first hand.

Right now my taste is going more for things that are organic where the people are using all the sonic possibilities in interesting ways.

When the intellectual part of guitar playing overrides the spiritual, you don't get to extreme heights.

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

Well, I don't need protection One life begins, another dies Bad timing I won't last

Making art is about accepting what's going on around you and turning it into

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

Make sure you stay in touch with beauty instead of letting the ugliness of the world corrupt your soul

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

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

I think you get people taking things to excess in all fields, doctors, lawyers - -it happens to all kinds of people.

Artistic expression, sex, and truth are the only things that really matter.

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

But I have been avoiding talking about what I'm doing now because it's frustrating for people to hear about things that aren't available yet.

It means basically I'm using the synthesizer more to change the sounds of other things rather than to use it as the source of the sound.

Rock music is electronic music, dependent entirely on electronic circuitry and amplification.

The curtains were made for moving Cause you know sometimes you're not always there

I'm dreading the time that is not near As a man on a cross I have no fear I can't believe these words I'm saying You've got to feel your lines

I need people to call me, I never remember to call anyone - otherwise I'll just sit in my house and listen to music all day.

Dream that you died It takes you out of your mind The black walls of space Take me all the way

But I think I know just as many creative people who've never taken drugs in their life as I do who have taken a lot of drugs.

I write lyrics. I play the guitar. If the rest of the band had to do my schedule, they would be dead

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

The Will to Death is what keeps me alive

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

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

Any guitar solo should reflect the music that it's soloing over and not just be existing in its own sort of little world.

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

I'm not interested in meeting people's expectations, and I'm not interested in pleasing people.

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

I've been in pain hope it doesn't show I've been insane well the time is slow

Expression is when you are at one with nothingness.

If anything unfolds, it's supposed to

As long as you're excited about what you're playing, and as long as it comes from your heart, it's going to be great.