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" We were these arty punks from Hollywood. I considered myself an intellectual. "
Flea
Myself
Intellectual
Were
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" We always write way more than we put on a record. We always write a lot-lot. "
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" I love my life and my mistakes and my triumphs - all of it. "
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" 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. "
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" I was raised to think that rock was music for ignorant people who didn't think for themselves. "
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" Anything worth doing good takes a little chaos. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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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'. "
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" 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. "
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Want
" 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. "
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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. "
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Poetry
Music
" With acting, I always feel conscious of what I'm doing. "
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Feel
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I'm a performer and have managed to get my performing into the mainstream consciousness of the world, I guess. "
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Performing
Get
Consciousness
" 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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Stupid
Start
People
" 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. "
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Goal
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" I studied music at the most remedial level when I was a kid, through the Los Angeles public schools, with a little private instruction. "
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" 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. "
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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. "
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" 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. "
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" Being a rock star isn't all it's cracked up to be, let me tell you. "
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" Before every show, we get into a circle, hold hands, and someone makes a speech. Most bands are too cool for that. "
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Circle
Cool
Someone
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Enough
Good
Improvisation
" 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. "
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