In our early period we pretty much survived or perished on our capacity to reach people, and on getting into the pattern of having no money and playing lots of shows.
I'm the kind of person who can hear that stuff. If you sing along to the radio and you're not going to sing unison with the melody, but find the harmony, I find that pretty easy to do.
Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.
And Warner Bros. seems to be pretty much into re-releasing all of their catalog. So there's the Warner Bros. stuff and the stuff that we have control over, we're gradually re-releasing it. Some stuff we don't have control over.
So we are pretty convinced we don't want to play huge stadiums unless we can play them well.
So I went out and bought myself a copy of the Writer and Artist Yearbook, bought lots of magazines and got on the phone and talked to editors about ideas for stories. Pretty soon I found myself hired to do interviews and articles and went off and did them.
My clothes are great for a honeymoon: They're light and sexy, colorful and pretty, and not expensive.
It's really hard to find good movies, and that's pretty much what I try to find, good movies.
Little Odessa. Of all my movies, it's the one that I still really love when I watch it and I'm pretty happy with what I didn in that.
Sinatra was pretty astute - he used the best songwriters around, he used all the resources, he covered every song from the era basically.
In the Chili Peppers I'm a part of that world in a pretty big world and that's just the way it is.
How much will you give for the lives of your childrens children, which is yourself? How much are people willing to give up for air, earth, water, animals, and the coming generations? I think the answer to that is pretty clear.
As an improviser I'm now pretty comfortable with trios, so I'm thinking of working up to quartets.
When we talk about safety and security of the American people, politics falls aside pretty quickly.
Because society would rather we always wore a pretty face, women have been trained to cut off anger.