Red Hot Chili Peppers Quotes
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I was a little self-centered gutter punk in the early 1980s and all I wanted to do was diss everybody.
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I had sort of exhausted all the avenues playing in Detroit. So again, through the stewardship of my brother, I ended up in California and went to the Musicians Institute in L.A. I wanted to get better as a player.
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The Meatbats are a throwback band.
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This Life is More than Just a read through.
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I inherited my father's insatiable desire to meet all the beautiful girls in the world.
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Flea and Anthony are into funk, like old school Meters and stuff like that.
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We always feel pretty creative as far as writing songs. We write them together; we just get in a room, or on occasion in Flea's garage. We just sort of improvise, like jazz musicians.
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Edible names are what drives me as a musician. My next band will be called the Hot Dogs.
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I plan to surf more - learn the way of the wave.
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I knew that this was going to be questioned and it was going to come under skepticism as to why I left 'Star Wars'.
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The energy is still similar because I saw some old footage of us when we were in France that they'd dredged up out of God knows where and I was like, the energy is still there.
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I've got used to touring. If you make calculations of the nights spent in hotels in my life, multiplied by the tattoos I have for hundred.
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There were times when all Hillel and I had was each other. We were fucked up and understood what it was to be living in an out-of-control fog. (Scar Tissue, 2004).
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Its very sort of spontaneous and organic, not a preconceived sort of jamming. Now we record everything, cause sometimes you'll forget, you know, 'what was that thing again?' So we record everything.
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Now I can look back and say I actually like the upbringing I had and my father was very attentive and a great educator.
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The only thing I've ever wanted to do is really make people happy, offer some sort of positivity with music that I've written. The Chili Peppers do that for people. They're already established. I still want something that came out of me, and out of my heart.
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Family time is really important to me.
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'Bowling For Columbine' and 'Gus Van Sant's Elephant' really intrigued me. With 'Bowling For Columbine', I think Michael Moore just gave the perfect exploration of both the mass media interpretation of the event and going into the minds of these kids. These were messed-up kids who had hit a point of no return.
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Death by evaporation. May the saltwater wind that gets shot out of a barreling wave blow me away like an old puffy dandelion into the sky.
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You can't have bad without good. You can't have right without wrong. You can't have fantastic without mundane. You need to experience all that to really earn the title of the film, 'Fantastic Four.'
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I like the idea of defying the convention of what it is to be in your 40s, or 50s, or 60s.
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I met the guys through a friend of a friend, and their former drummer had quit. I wasn't too familiar with the Chili Peppers before that, so I joined at the end of 88' and we finished recording Mother's Milk at the end of 89', next thing I know I'm in Spin with a sock.
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You can't have the word 'fantasy' or 'fantastical' without a contrast. It has to stem from a grounded experience.
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We've put songs out on singles and weird little packages that only the real vinyl-philes care about.