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

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 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 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.

We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.

Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.

Any time a new horror film comes out that looks appealing, I'm always excited to go see it.

Age doesn't matter, unless you're cheese.

No one said living isn't a pretty chancy business, Sibyl. No one gets out of here alive.

Ask me about my complete lack of interest. (T-shirt)

There in the midst of the Amazon Jungle, Simon Haskell has cobbled up for himself a replica of an Art Deco salon.

No matter how steep the mountain - the Lord is going to climb it with you.

My best efforts were some modern things that looked like very lousy Matisses. Thank God I had the sense to realize they were lousy, and leave Paris.

As a child my grandmother used to tell us stories about the dead and the mystical.