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. Flea Read Quote
I had a friend who had been teaching music for a long time, and he knew a bunch of teachers, so I just put up the money and started a school. Flea Read Quote
For me, music was the only reason I went to school. I was kind of a street kid, in a lot of trouble committing crimes and stuff. Music gave me something to focus on. Flea Read Quote
I’m always put in the unfortunate position of asking people to donate money and people I know in bands to play benefit concerts and all this stuff. Flea Read Quote
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 Read Quote
As a musician I’m about expressing what’s inside, and I think everyone has a song in them that they need to get out, whatever their gig is. Flea Read Quote
It’s fun to just get out there and have a nice conversation when I’m running. To be honest, when I do longer runs, the trail that I like to run up in Malibu has mountain lions, so I always feel I want to run with someone else. Flea Read Quote
I was raised to think that rock was music for ignorant people who didn’t think for themselves. Flea Read Quote
All I knew about Ethiopia was from a few records that I like, as well as what I read about the famine. But you get there and it’s another world. It’s filled with art and music and poetry and intellectuals and writers – all kinds of people. Flea Read Quote