Its very sort of spontaneous and organic, not a preconceived sort of jamming. Now we record everything, cause sometimes you'll forget, you know, 'what was that thing again?' So we record everything.

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'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.

Every time you hurt my heart, you are actually making it stronger.

We must all cultivate our own creativity because we each have a God-given imagination that has the ability to bless generations and eternity.

Does it, does it—I'm flailing here—does it have a name? What you've

...into hate, into refusal, against hope and without fear

You want to know about creativity? Just go out and buy that book Imagine by Jonah Lehrer. It's only $29.00 in hardcover.

...sentences swallowed and sung back and swallowed all over again. She was made entirely out of words.

I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.

Do not cruise through red lights. Because if I'm coming the other way, I will run you down, for fun.

Even to this day, grace remains hard to swallow. Religiosity and moralism go down easier than free forgiveness.

Today, there are more Americans working than ever before in the history of our Nation, and the average wage of those workers is higher than it has ever been in the history of our Nation.