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

- Flea

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.

- Flea

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.'

- Flea

When Hillel died, it was during one of the happiest times of my life. I was married and completely in love and had a baby on the way.

- Flea

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

- Flea

We were these arty punks from Hollywood. I considered myself an intellectual.

- Flea

Outside of a couple of times I ran without eating right or being too tired, I always feel great after I run.

- Flea

Kids deserve arts, and it's just as important as science, math, history, English or athletics.

- Flea

Just so people know, the Silverlake Conservatory of Music is not at all about celebrity or fame or being a star. It's an academic music school.

- Flea

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.

- Flea

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

- Flea

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.

- Flea

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.

- Flea

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.

- Flea

I did record a bunch of stuff, but the thing that usually stops me from doing that is that I'm a terrible singer. I made a bunch of instrumental music, and it feels really good, but just as a singer, I'm not good.

- Flea

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.

- Flea

I feel like if we're not running, we're basically disrespecting our bodies. When you're running, you're really using your body for what it's meant to do.

- Flea

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.

- Flea

I have a trainer, a really nice woman named Nina Greenberg, and she got me a training plan, and we go running in the canyons in Malibu. It's just beautiful up there, absolutely gorgeous. You see bobcats up there sometimes.

- Flea

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.

- Flea