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" 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. "

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" 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'. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 always thought I was a pretty terrible actor. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" I studied music at the most remedial level when I was a kid, through the Los Angeles public schools, with a little private instruction. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Anything worth doing good takes a little chaos. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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