My religious point of view is something I can't talk about. It goes against my belief system to talk publicly about my own spiritual beliefs.

- John Frusciante

I think the feelings in my music were suggested to me before I even had the ability to play music.

- John Frusciante

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.

- John Frusciante

I just like to switch things up all the time. Like when it comes to singing, I try to find a different character for each song.

- John Frusciante

For me, theory has always opened things up to where I can walk into a room and just by hearing something I know exactly where to go on the guitar. I have a better time playing because I have a variety of colors to bring to the table.

- John Frusciante

I try to put the same spirit into that that I put into any other music endeavor I'm involved in.

- John Frusciante

Yeah, I really like being alive. But I definitely don't have any intentions as an artist.

- John Frusciante

But I have been avoiding talking about what I'm doing now because it's frustrating for people to hear about things that aren't available yet.

- John Frusciante

Any guitar solo should reflect the music that it's soloing over and not just be existing in its own sort of little world.

- John Frusciante

I combine aspects of many styles of music and create my own musical forms by way of electronic instruments.

- John Frusciante

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.

- John Frusciante

I don't want to be on the radio. I don't want to be on Mtv.

- John Frusciante

I don't have an extensive background in theory, but the amount of it that I've learned, I've applied, so I have a vocabulary of melodic and rhythmic relationships. And that's all theory is - it's symbols to help you identify those relationships.

- John Frusciante

I'm also very impressed with the best people in experimental electronic world, like Peta and Eckart Aillers and Finez and Jim O'Rourke and Oren Umbarci and Francesco Lopez. Most of them use the computer as their main instrument.

- John Frusciante

In music you have people exposing this very vulnerable part of themselves, and you also have the lifestyle is so fast that oftentimes people search for whatever the easiest way to feel relaxed in the midst of all of it, or the easiest way to have energy.

- John Frusciante

People fall into patterns at fast speeds, when really, to have a clear musical thought - the kind of musical thought that makes a melody work - our brains just can't think that fast. At a certain point, you're going on automatic.

- John Frusciante

Something like trying to protect yourself all the time, things like trying to outwit fate. Those things can be the worst thing you can do for yourself.

- John Frusciante

The drive to create music that is pure is my highest priority. Sometimes I'll get extremely technical, and other times I'll just kind of go with the gods of music.

- John Frusciante

So I use a tape recorder a lot to record ideas.

- John Frusciante

My music, my whole approach to the synthesizer has completely changed now.

- John Frusciante