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

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" 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. "

" Music gave me something that was not only good for me - it gave me something to work on, something to be proud of and something that I really loved and have a love for - but also music was good for other people because you put joy into the world. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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'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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 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.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Before every show, we get into a circle, hold hands, and someone makes a speech. Most bands are too cool for that. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I started playing trumpet when I was 11 years old. All I wanted to be was a jazz trumpet player when I grew up. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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