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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. "

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" 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. "

" I always thought I was a pretty terrible actor. "

" 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. "

" The apparatus has to serve our improbability and improvisation. Being good and playing the songs is not enough. "

" With acting, I always feel conscious of what I'm doing. "

" I love my life and my mistakes and my triumphs - all of it. "

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

" 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. "

" I'm a performer and have managed to get my performing into the mainstream consciousness of the world, I guess. "

" Later in high school, I met Hillel Slovak, who was the original guitar player of the Chili Peppers, and we became really close. We had a band, and we didn't like the bass player, so I started playing bass, and I got a bass two weeks later. "

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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I was raised to think that rock was music for ignorant people who didn't think for themselves. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" We were these arty punks from Hollywood. I considered myself an intellectual. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I got my love of jazz from my stepfather, who was a jazz musician. "

" I just lucked into this weird, little obscure cameoesque film career. I just love being a part of film history. "

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" 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. "