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" 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. "

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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. "

Flea

Childhood

Father

Life

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

" 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. "

" 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'. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Being a rock star isn't all it's cracked up to be, let me tell you. "

Flea

Rock Star

Rock

" 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.' "

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

" 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

People

" The quality of instruction is very high at the Silverlake Conservatory of Music. It's not about being a rock star. It's about the fundamentals of music, theory and technique on a particular instrument, and playing in an ensemble or private setting. "

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

Flea

Jazz

Trumpet

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" Anything worth doing good takes a little chaos. "

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

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