Well, I don't even know how to drive in this life, so I'm pretty far from ever having the life of being a stuntdouble. I liked- I had an Evil Knievel doll when i was a kid, that's about it!
The drive to create music that is pure is my highest priority. Sometimes I'll get extremely technical, and other times I'll just kind of go with the gods of music.
In the Chili Peppers I'm a part of that world in a pretty big world and that's just the way it is.
And if a few other people come along who discover my music because they in some natural way come across my music, cool.
And for me the only way to live life is to grab the bull by the horns and call up recording studios and set dates to go in recording studios. To try and accomplish something.
So when I feel the spirit upon me it's something I don't take it for granted, and I don't think I'm solely responsible for these things.
I think an analogue synth is an extension of the natural world.
I think you get people taking things to excess in all fields, doctors, lawyers - -it happens to all kinds of people.
Rock guitarists usually do not wish to think trains of thought about anything but their own guitar playing during a long solo, and I could not play this way if I were not able to divide my attention between my ever changing musical environment and my instrument itself.
I combine aspects of many styles of music and create my own musical forms by way of electronic instruments.
And this whole period of time of gradually working at being a better guitar player and songwriter have gradually led me to the point where I feel I'm doing a clearer representation of the thing that I've been feeling inside me since I was four years old.
Well, I don't need protection One life begins, another dies Bad timing I won't last
I don't want to be on the radio. I don't want to be on Mtv.
I feel like I'd like to continue putting out records and start putting them out more rapidly than I have until now and for me if I can keep selling the records to the fans that already like me that's fine.
So I use a tape recorder a lot to record ideas.
You don't throw your life away Going Inside You get to know who's watching you And besides you resides in your body
I consider my music to be Progressive Synth Pop, which says nothing about what it sounds like, but does describe my basic approach.
But I think I know just as many creative people who've never taken drugs in their life as I do who have taken a lot of drugs.
What really helps me is being able to record my albums at home - I have more fun experimenting that way, as opposed to working with an engineer, in which case I have to deal with the humiliation of doing take after take, and that can get frustrating.
But I have been avoiding talking about what I'm doing now because it's frustrating for people to hear about things that aren't available yet.
I just like to switch things up all the time. Like when it comes to singing, I try to find a different character for each song.
Pagers are my life--I try to get them in to our music as much as possible.
All I know is that the six months when I recorded this music was the most productive time of my life, and I'll always remember it as the first time in my life that I ever felt like I was one with my dreams.
I don't have an extensive background in theory, but the amount of it that I've learned, I've applied, so I have a vocabulary of melodic and rhythmic relationships. And that's all theory is - it's symbols to help you identify those relationships.
People fall into patterns at fast speeds, when really, to have a clear musical thought - the kind of musical thought that makes a melody work - our brains just can't think that fast. At a certain point, you're going on automatic.
