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" 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. "

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" All I knew about Ethiopia was from a few records that I like, as well as what I read about the famine. But you get there and it's another world. It's filled with art and music and poetry and intellectuals and writers - all kinds of people. "

" 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. "

" Ethiopia is such a great country, beautiful place. "

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" A big part of my life is music education because it changed my life - but arts, academics and athletics should all be equally treated in the school. "

" 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. "

" Running opened up something beautiful in my life. I try to send the energy all over my body. I love the feeling of it. "

" 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. "

" If you live a rebellious lifestyle, then you rebel against things because they go against your ideals and the integrity of who you are as a person. "

" 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. "

" Anything worth doing good takes a little chaos. "

" I exercise; I have a big career. I'm a parent, and I run a music school. "

" The most important thing to me with any politician is that they don't start wars, but education is a big part of that, too, because educated people are less likely to do stupid, violent things. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Turning 50 is a little bit of a 'taking stock' moment. I feel probably a little dumber. I don't think I'm as sharp as I was when I was younger, but I'm definitely wiser and less likely to make gigantic blunders of an intellectual, spiritual, emotional or physical type. "

" For me, music was the only reason I went to school. I was kind of a street kid, in a lot of trouble committing crimes and stuff. Music gave me something to focus on. "

" We always write way more than we put on a record. We always write a lot-lot. "

" When I was growing up, in L.A., I went to these schools, Fairfax High School, Bancroft Junior High School, and they had great music departments. I always played in the orchestra, the jazz band, the marching band. "

" When something comes up, and it's interesting, and I have the time, I'll do it. "

" The Silverlake Conservatory is a nonprofit music school in Los Angeles where we teach music, mostly to kids, but to people of all ages - people who are old, people with beards, all kinds of people. "

" 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. "

" I wanted to play in a band, and I wanted to do music for a living, and that's what I dedicated my life to. "

" I grew up with all these old jazz guys in the '70s in L.A., and they grew up idolizing Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus, Lester Young - all of these incredible musicians. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I studied chord theory and started playing the piano. "

" 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'. "