In Some Of The L.a. Clubs, People

Edible Names Are What Drives Me As A Musician. My Next Band Will Be Called The Hot Dogs.

I Just Played At A Club In L.a. Called The Baked Potato. It Fits Like 90 People. It's Like Playing Somewhere In A Basement In, Like, Indiana Or Somewhere Where All Your Friends Show Up. It's Really Fun And There's A Very Different Energy To That Than To Play To 50,000 At A Tokyo Baseball Stadium.

We Always Feel Pretty Creative As Far As Writing Songs. We Write Them Together; We Just Get In A Room, Or On Occasion In Flea's Garage. We Just Sort Of Improvise, Like Jazz Musicians.

I Took A Private Lesson, But It Didn't Really Work Out, So I Went Back To Playing Along With Records. That's Really The Thing That Got Me Into Playing A Lot - Getting Excited About Playing Along With My Favorite Bands Like Zeppelin And Black Sabbath.

There's Something About The Rawness Of The Live Thing, There's No Rhythm Guitars Behind The Solo, Nothing Other Than What You Hear The People Playing At That Moment. It's Exciting, It's About The Performance.