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"Yeah, I really like being alive. But I definitely don't have any intentions as an artist."
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"The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic."
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"Besides me wanting to be an artist, I wanted to be a movie star."
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"Fans are my favorite thing in the world. I've never been the type of artist who has that line drawn between their friends and their fans. The line's always been really blurred for me. I'll hang out with them after the show. I'll hang out with them before the show. If I see them in the mall, I'll stand there and talk to them for 10 minutes."
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"To the extent that '60s guys own things, yes... but I don't have the publishing, just like most '60s guys, and that was an error, you know... part ownership in publishing was the kind of era that started a little bit later, when real businessmen started to manage artists."
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"Well, first of all it's entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we're great artists."
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"I think that it can be said of a lot of artists, and myself included, that we made the same record over and over from the beginning."
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"I just feel passionately about a few things and particularly about helping artists get off the ground."
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"There was never any effort made out there to improve the artist."
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"I'm rarely grabbed by anything the way I was when I was 10 years younger. About the only relatively new artists whose albums I own are Beck, and They Might Be Giants."
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"One of the makeup artists once dyed my dog blue with vegetable blue."
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"Everything's very perfectly balanced; for all the horrible things in the world there's lots of good things."
World
"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."
Music
"I find that the best way to do things is to constantly move forward and to never doubt anything and keep moving forward, if you make a mistake say you made a mistake."
Mistake
"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."
Selling
"And for me the only way to live life is to grab the bull by the horns and call up recording studios and set dates to go in recording studios. To try and accomplish something."
Life
"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."
People
"In the Chili Peppers I'm a part of that world in a pretty big world and that's just the way it is."
Pretty
"Yeah, I really like being alive. But I definitely don't have any intentions as an artist."
Artist
"The main thing experience has taught me is that one has to sort of hone their relationship to time, you know."
Experience
"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."
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