¤ "if the band had my schedule, they'd be dead" (Roadwork, 2000);

¤ "By the way, I’m not saying my music comes from the spirits and yours doesn’t; all the crap music everywhere in the world, it all comes from spirits. Crappy music comes from crappy spirits."

¤ "...two years ago my two friends invited me in the band and let me thinking about music all the time and........oh my THREE friends, sorry Chad!!!" (Roxy show, 2001)

¤ "Pagers are my life. I try to get them into our music as much as possible." (By The Way shooting, 2003)

¤ "Everybody I ever met I would tell them, 'The Chili Peppers' are my favorite band, I love them."

¤ "Chad is the meanest. He'll push fans around and yell at them just to make me laugh." (Funky Monks, 1992);

¤ "I don't need to take drugs. I feel so much more high all the time right now because of the type of momentum that a person can get going when you really dedicate yourself to something that you really love. I don't even consider doing them, they're completely silly. Between my dedication to trying to constantly be a better musician and eating my health foods and doing yoga, I feel so much more high than I did for the last few years of doing drugs."

¤ "It feels kind of like we've cared for these songs like they were our children and these are the ones that are grown up enough to go out into the world."

¤ "That's what I spend most of my time doing, breathing a lot. I like air ." (Live at Abbey Road,2006)

¤ "For me the only way to live life is to grab the bull by the horns and call up recording studios and set dates to go in recording studios. To try and accomplish something ."

¤ "If a few other people come along who discover my music because they in some natural way come across my music, cool. ."

¤ "As far as my solo record, I don't want a gold record or anything, I'm happy to be small and to have the people appreciate the music who really like me for being me ."

¤ "I find that the best way to do things is to constantly move forward and to never doubt anything and keep moving forward, if you make a mistake say you made a mistake. "

¤ "Everything's very perfectly balanced; for all the horrible things in the world there's lots of good things."

¤ "I'm not interested in forcing my music on people, and that's what the whole music industry nowadays is based on is forcing stations to play it, forcing people to listen to it. "

¤ "You just never know when somebody's gonna die. It could happen at any moment so you've got to really treat everybody that way. Just really let everybody know how you feel about them. "

¤ "I write songs because I have to write them, and if I didn't I'd be doing some other kind of music that didn't require a song."

¤ "We would like to thank all the people who didn't win." (Grammys 2007)

¤ "I remember it like I’m remembering somebody else’s life. I remember how spirits at that time were plaguing me and insulting me all the time. It was good. Because what I was capable of compared to what I was doing was so huge, so the spirits were giving me hell for it.” (on seeing a picture of him back in the beginning)

¤ “I was smoking pot night and day and I went through the world thinking it should be the way I believe it should be. And if it’s not like that then I’ll shut that part of the world out. I was scared I’d lose my ability to be creative. I thought being a heroin addict and making my life nothing but good feelings was the best way to maintain being a creative person. But it’s not.”

¤ “I know how to work hard to make them happy. I like the idea that I’ll never be in the position of having nothing to eat and nowhere to live again. And I love being able to buy as many records as I want to buy.

¤ “I’m not scared of going back on drugs. I don’t see it as being a possibility.”

¤ “You just never know when somebody's gonna die. It could happen at any moment so you've got to really treat everybody that way. Just really let everybody know how you feel about them.”

¤ I'm very connected to these 3 people (Anthony, Flea, Chad) because i feel like i was born to play music with them.