When I’m at home, I just run all the time, you know; I get up, and I go pretty much four days a week outdoors. I go in the canyons around L.A., Malibu – just around L.A. there’s a lot of different spots. – Flea
I feel creatively vibrant. I have some great friends; I feel like I’m capable of giving a lot to the world. And ultimately, that’s what I really care about, is just giving. – 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. – Flea
Kids deserve arts, and it’s just as important as science, math, history, English or athletics. – Flea
I have a trainer, a really nice woman named Nina Greenberg, and she got me a training plan, and we go running in the canyons in Malibu. It’s just beautiful up there, absolutely gorgeous. You see bobcats up there sometimes. – Flea
The last thing that should happen is funding cut for education; it should be increased. We need to put more money towards education, and anything else is abusive. – Flea
When I first heard about Twittering, I thought it was the most disgusting thing I’d ever heard of in my life. It’s like the devil: the idea that your personal life is there for everybody. – Flea
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
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. – Flea
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. – Flea
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
Later in high school, I met Hillel Slovak, who was the original guitar player of the Chili Peppers, and we became really close. We had a band, and we didn’t like the bass player, so I started playing bass, and I got a bass two weeks later. – Flea
My whole musical life has been an educational process, and I’m just furthering my education and filling in the blanks. There’s stuff that I want to know that I don’t know. – Flea
Water is my main state. If I time before I run – like, to digest, like, a good hour and a half or so to digest, I’ll eat oatmeal. but I’m a vegetarian for the most part, so in general, I just eat grains and vegetables and fruit. – Flea
Running opened up something beautiful in my life. I try to send the energy all over my body. I love the feeling of it. – Flea
Just so people know, the Silverlake Conservatory of Music is not at all about celebrity or fame or being a star. It’s an academic music school. – Flea
The apparatus has to serve our improbability and improvisation. Being good and playing the songs is not enough. – Flea
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
It’s so easy to fall into a comfortable groove in life where you do the things that you like, and because of that, often times, we don’t grow or change because we’re not pushing ourselves. – Flea
When you make music, you’re forming these invisible vibrations in the air into different shapes and consistencies and speeds in order to create music, and understanding how the math of that works just gives you more colors to paint with, and allows you to get to what you want quicker. – Flea