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.

Anything worth doing good takes a little chaos.

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

A lot of women in sport tend to take on a very masculine, aggressive look. They want to be perceived as being strong and powerful. I never lost that sense of wanting to retain my femininity.

As a writer, I try to do different things, but I'm not going to become a darker artist or turn into Radiohead overnight. I don't think that's my style.

Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.