John Frusciante

“I feel like I'd like to continue putting out records and start putting them out more rapidly than I have until now and for me if I can keep selling the records to the fans that already like me that's fine.”

“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.”

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

“For me it's important to be in balance. To not let fear get in the way of things, to not worry so much about protecting yourself all the time.”

“I'm not interested in meeting people's expectations, and I'm not interested in pleasing people.”

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

“I consider my music to be Progressive Synth Pop, which says nothing about what it sounds like, but does describe my basic approach.”

“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.”

“I just feel like the songs that come out are the songs that come.”

“In the Chili Peppers I'm a part of that world in a pretty big world and that's just the way it is.”

“I'm not interested in forcing my music on people, and that's what the whole music industry nowadays is based on is forcing stations to play it, forcing people to listen to it.”

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

“I would say a lot of the emotion in what I do is a sort of a thankfulness for those energies being around, because there's been points in my life when they weren't around, and it's a real sort of miserable existence.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Rock music is electronic music, dependent entirely on electronic circuitry and amplification.”

“For me my friendship with Omar Rodriguez from Mars Volta that friendship really means a lot to me because he's another creative person who works as hard as I do.”

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