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" I exercise; I have a big career. I'm a parent, and I run a music school. "
Flea
Run
School
Exercise
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" As a musician I'm about expressing what's inside, and I think everyone has a song in them that they need to get out, whatever their gig is. "
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" We were at the dark end of the L.A. punk scene, and that scene was full-on and violent and aggressive and wild and intense. "
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Aggressive
Dark
" I just lucked into this weird, little obscure cameoesque film career. I just love being a part of film history. "
Flea
Love
Just
Film
" The last thing that should happen is funding cut for education; it should be increased. We need to put more money towards education, and anything else is abusive. "
Flea
Money
Last
Education
" Ethiopia is such a great country, beautiful place. "
Flea
Beautiful Place
Beautiful
Place
" Running opened up something beautiful in my life. I try to send the energy all over my body. I love the feeling of it. "
Flea
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Beautiful
Energy
" Before every show, we get into a circle, hold hands, and someone makes a speech. Most bands are too cool for that. "
Flea
Circle
Cool
Someone
" I went to school and studied music for a year at USC, which unlocked a bunch of doors for me in terms of my relationship to music. "
Flea
School
Relationship
Music
" Being a dad and being in the Red Hot Chili Peppers and all the stuff I have to do... The trumpet requires a lot of diligence, and I haven't had the time. "
Flea
Hot
Trumpet
Red
" When you make music, you're forming these invisible vibrations in the air into different shapes and consistencies and speeds in order to create music, and understanding how the math of that works just gives you more colors to paint with, and allows you to get to what you want quicker. "
Flea
Colors
You
Want
" We must improvise, and we must experiment, and we must do things that might go wrong, and everything we bring - the people and the equipment - must serve us in that goal. "
Flea
Goal
Us
People
" It's fun to just get out there and have a nice conversation when I'm running. To be honest, when I do longer runs, the trail that I like to run up in Malibu has mountain lions, so I always feel I want to run with someone else. "
Flea
Nice
Conversation
Fun
" I love entertaining people, I love playing music, and I love rocking like an animal. But at a certain point, you're playing gig after gig after gig, in town after town after town, and you're lying down, staring at another hotel-room ceiling, and it's like, 'I want to be home. I'm a dad. I've got kids.' "
Flea
Animal
Music
Love
" The apparatus has to serve our improbability and improvisation. Being good and playing the songs is not enough. "
Flea
Enough
Good
Improvisation
" It's so easy to fall into a comfortable groove in life where you do the things that you like, and because of that, often times, we don't grow or change because we're not pushing ourselves. "
Flea
Grow
Easy
Fall
" We were these arty punks from Hollywood. I considered myself an intellectual. "
Flea
Myself
Intellectual
Were
" For me it's the high-water mark of American culture - not so much contemporary jazz, which has become kind of academic, but the jazz from the '20s on through the '70s. "
Flea
Jazz
Mark
American
" When something comes up, and it's interesting, and I have the time, I'll do it. "
Flea
Something
Interesting
Time
" After running for a while, things really start to open up in your body. I felt like I'd tapped into parts of my body that I hadn't before. I let things in the universe flow through me that opened me up in a really cool way. "
Flea
Cool
Body
Universe
" I like the idea of acting. Of all these things I've done, sometimes I think I've done well, and sometimes I think I didn't do well, but they are more cameos, and I come in and be crazy. "
Flea
Sometimes
Acting
Crazy
" I've always kind of been an in-the-moment kind of person. I don't think that far in advance or have any idea what's around the next corner. "
Flea
Corner
Think
Far
" When I was a kid, and it was time to go to college, I thought, 'College is for people who don't have the street smarts to make it on their own - get in a band, get in a van, and get rockin'. "
Flea
Time
College
Thought
" Being a rock star isn't all it's cracked up to be, let me tell you. "
Flea
Rock Star
Rock
Me
" I studied music at the most remedial level when I was a kid, through the Los Angeles public schools, with a little private instruction. "
Flea
Level
Through
Kid
" I love literature deeply. I view books as sacred things, and in writing my story, I'm going to do my best to honor the form that has played such a huge part in shaping who I am. "
Flea
Writing
Story
Love
" You teach your kids about your beliefs and tell them what you think is right and the conclusions that you've come to from living in the world, and then they can make their own decisions. "
Flea
Think
Living
World
" Anything worth doing good takes a little chaos. "
Flea
Doing
Chaos
Doing Good
" I love my life and my mistakes and my triumphs - all of it. "
Flea
Mistakes
I Love
Life
" My father was out of my life when I was pretty young - when I was 7 years old, he was gone. I didn't see him for the rest of my childhood. "
Flea
Childhood
Father
Life
" I feel creatively vibrant. I have some great friends; I feel like I'm capable of giving a lot to the world. And ultimately, that's what I really care about, is just giving. "
Flea
World
Giving
Friends