People who come up to me are drummers or fans of the band. I don't get it too much, but I'll be somewhere and someone will have me take a picture or something.

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.

When you talk to a human in 2035, you'll be talking to someone that's a combination of biological and non-biological intelligence.

A tear is enough water to float a desire to God.

Leadership can be thought of as a capacity to define oneself to others in a way that clarifies and expands a vision of the future.

Give me faith, Lord, to know Your Presence as surely as I know the beating of my own heart. I've felt so far from You.

Whatever our creed or belief, we all know that there is no way back, that we must fight our way through.

When people tap into this politics of resentment, it usually ends ugly.

Romantic comedies are built to be light. They're built for a certain buoyancy.

God is the word that speaks itself.

A lot of that momentum comes from the fact that Linux is free.

Bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel.