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.

The Meatbats are a throwback band.

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.

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

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.

Our youth [with their overwhelming support of Obama] are voting for a permanent tax on their life

Human history began with an act of disobedience and it is not unlikely that it will be terminated by an act of obedience.

By the time the civil service has finished drafting a document to give effect to the principle, there may be little of the principle left.

For me, the way I stay consistent is through stand-up comedy.

I like people more undone than made up. Patricia Arquette is the ultimate. She's not anorexic or perfectly tan, she's not trying to be anything but what she is, and that's the most sexy thing.

Test cricket is bloody hard work, especially when you've got Sachin batting with what looks like a three metre wide bat.

There is no one as dangerous as he or she who has nothing to lose.

My mum is about five foot with her hair done. Without it she's about four foot 10.

There is only life, there is nobody who lives a life.

I’ve chosen my life — now I want to start living it.