Flea

I always thought I was a pretty terrible actor.

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

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.

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.

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

I love literature deeply. I view books as sacred things, and in writing my story, I'm going to do my best to honor the form that has played such a huge part in shaping who I am.

I was on a path that could've really led to disaster, and the one thing for me that really kept me focused and gave me something to believe in and a sense of self-worth and a discipline was music.

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.

I went to school and studied music for a year at USC, which unlocked a bunch of doors for me in terms of my relationship to music.

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.