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.

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.

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.

Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House - as Brutus loved Caesar.

There are different kinds and degrees of love, and they change over time, ripening and deepening and changing us in the process.

It's funny: half my films were flops, half did well. It would be terrible if I'd had only success.

I've been alienating my public since I was 20 years old.

England is a profoundly bizarre place that has produced thousands of bands the world has worshipped.

The same quickness which makes a mind buoyant in gladness often makes it gentlest and most sympathetic in sorrow.

And what can still delight an inert stone except to become, once more, the bed of a raging torrent?

I grew up during the Revolution of Iran and the war between Iran and Iraq. The things that I saw. The impact. How it changes you. How it changes the way you look at the world.

Only when I focus on the holiness and glory of God am I able to see myself with accuracy.

Think... of the world you carry within you.