For live you need a microphone for the snare and the high hat, the kick drum, a nice stereo overhead and one for the toms - you can get away with using four mikes.

The Meatbats are a throwback band.

Music doesn't solve your problems..but allows you to dance all over them

I just try to approach and serve the music in the way that I think is right for the band I'm in at the time.

I just love to play and I get a chance to play with other musicians and I jump on it.

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.

In some of the L.A. clubs, people can act too cool to get into your music. That can get to be a bit much.

Jazz can be so serious, no sense of humor.

I'm a little more of a lead instrument in the Meatbats.

I feel like in order to challenge yourself you have to get out of and do things that feel wrong at first and find new things. It's important to look for those things.

Flea and Anthony are into funk, like old school Meters and stuff like that.

Every love gives you wings.

There had been moments when she felt he had almost forgiven her. She would always remember those moments.

I can't tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I've got a good bead on myself.

See how God ever like with like doth pair, And still the worthless doth the worthless lead!

I gave up all for Christ, and what have I found? Everything in Christ.

[...] even in the cruelest human being there can exist a flower of good. Maybe just the tiniest blossom, in need of water and sunlight, but a flower just the same.

You can change your emotion immediately .. by thinking of something joyful, or singing a song, or remembering a happy experience.

To get hold of your boys you must be their friend.

The value of consistent prayer is not that He will hear us, but that we will hear Him.

That which we call death, is but the other side of life.