Flea and Anthony are into funk, like old school Meters and stuff like that.

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.

In the face of great challenges, you can choose to live reactively as a victim, or choose to proactively take control, with awareness and accountability.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

The size of your community doesn't matter as much as the depth of your connection with them.

It is not enough to understand the natural world; the point is to defend and preserve it.

Even when I was playing, I never thought much about the individual honors. I wanted to go to the Super Bowl.

Few things are better in the world than a room full of librarians. I consider them literary heroes. The keepers and defenders of the written word.

I think everybody's got a presentation. Everybody looks a certain way because they want to convey a certain image. You look a certain way because you want people to listen to you in a certain way.

I had to have a complete liver transplant.

O, she's warm! If this be magic, let it be an art Lawful as eating.

The most wonderful thing in life is to be delirious and the most wonderful kind of delirium is being in love.