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If you live a rebellious lifestyle, then you rebel against things because they go against your ideals and the integrity of who you are as a person.
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Kids deserve arts, and it's just as important as science, math, history, English or athletics.
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Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em,And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum.And the great fleas themselves, in turn, have greater fleas to go on;While these again have greater still, and greater still, and so on.
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I've always kind of been an in-the-moment kind of person. I don't think that far in advance or have any idea what's around the next corner.
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I'm always put in the unfortunate position of asking people to donate money and people I know in bands to play benefit concerts and all this stuff.
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A big part of my life is music education because it changed my life - but arts, academics and athletics should all be equally treated in the school.
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My whole musical life has been an educational process, and I'm just furthering my education and filling in the blanks. There's stuff that I want to know that I don't know.
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Being a dad and being in the Red Hot Chili Peppers and all the stuff I have to do... The trumpet requires a lot of diligence, and I haven't had the time.
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Just so people know, the Silverlake Conservatory of Music is not at all about celebrity or fame or being a star. It's an academic music school.
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With acting, I always feel conscious of what I'm doing.
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Being a rock star isn't all it's cracked up to be, let me tell you.
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Steven Adler and I played football in the street when we were 12. I remember rehearsing in my bedroom with my first band, and some kid climbed over the fence of my backyard and peeked his head in the window to see who was rocking. It was Slash.
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All my career, all that I've really done has been based on emotion and intuition and gravitating toward what sounds good.
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I studied chord theory and started playing the piano.
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Water is my main state. If I time before I run - like, to digest, like, a good hour and a half or so to digest, I'll eat oatmeal. but I'm a vegetarian for the most part, so in general, I just eat grains and vegetables and fruit.
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I just lucked into this weird, little obscure cameoesque film career. I just love being a part of film history.
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I studied music at the most remedial level when I was a kid, through the Los Angeles public schools, with a little private instruction.
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Music is like the genius of humankind, universal... People who have never really taken the time to get into music, their lives are a lot smaller. Kids deserve the richness and dimension of it in their lives.
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I grew up being terrified of my parents, particularly my father figures.
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We were these arty punks from Hollywood. I considered myself an intellectual.
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When something comes up, and it's interesting, and I have the time, I'll do it.
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I like the idea of acting. Of all these things I've done, sometimes I think I've done well, and sometimes I think I didn't do well, but they are more cameos, and I come in and be crazy.
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I'm a performer and have managed to get my performing into the mainstream consciousness of the world, I guess.
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After running for a while, things really start to open up in your body. I felt like I'd tapped into parts of my body that I hadn't before. I let things in the universe flow through me that opened me up in a really cool way.