Sometimes one of us will have a riff or a bass line from home but it really gels when we come together. We really have a strong special chemistry that we take advantage of when we get together.

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.

You see, it doesn't matter if they're wrong. From 9/11 to recent shootings here in the United States, there's nothing more dangerous than a true believer on his own crazy mission.

It is not important who the leader is. Its important where they lead you to.

0 summer friendship whose flat-tering leaves shadowed us in our prosperity With the least gust drop off in the autumn of adversity.

Nothing of character is really permanent but virtue and personal worth.

Any union that can't accept workers choosing their own representatives through universal franchise is finished.

I became a completely dysfunctional, miserable person, completely uncommunicative and aggressive.

The great chastisement of a knave is not to be known, but to know himself.

Beyond the desert of criticism, we wish to be called again.

The Scriptures are shallow enough for a babe to come and drink without fear of drowning and deep enough for theologians to swim in without ever reaching the bottom.

The only person who has artistic control is the director, and 'director' is how you spell God in Hollywood.