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.

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

I look upon fine phrases as a lover. - John Keats

To know one's self is wisdom but to know one's neighbor is genius.

You can't develop a great car and sell it as an independent. You can develop a great car and make a deal with Mercedes.

I don't make enemies, it's just I'm not afraid to speak my mind, which can sometimes mean people don't like what I am saying

Treat praise like criticism: refuse to accept either.

Something I am now convinced of, after researching Everyone Brave, is that none of us is born courageous in all respects.

But I love fish, cheese and meat, and I eat everything, but only in small quantities if it's rich.

There is a certain tendency on the part of some Americans to treat the UN as a multilateralism à la carte where you pick and choose where it suits you and when it doesn't suit you, you pull back.

I fear that I am losing my mind. But really, it would not be such a precious thing to lose, as it only causes me pain.

I loved my mother and father.