Family time is really important to me.

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.

Silence in the face of evil is evil itself: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.

From the beauty they deserve will come the love they deserve. And from the love will follow truth.

I will protect you until you are grown and then I will let you fly free, but loving you, that is for always.

If everyone really knew what a jerk I am in real life, I wouldn't be so adored in the slightest.

Your history does not need to define your destiny.

More appealing than knowledge itself is the feeling of knowledge.

You can tell when someone is putting on a role. If someone really believes in what theyre saying, its quite hard to find cracks.

It's weird, because usually if you're British and you go to America you play baddies; but I play naughty people here and goodies in America.

Nature has given us this for free, it was meant to sustain us, we will not allow it to become a monopoly to finance the Imperial Army.

Whatever may happen, every kind of fortune is to be overcome by bearing it.