I just love to play and I get a chance to play with other musicians and I jump on it.

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 had sort of exhausted all the avenues playing in Detroit. So again, through the stewardship of my brother, I ended up in California and went to the Musicians Institute in L.A. I wanted to get better as a player.

I'm not really sick of people whipping their hair. It doesn't really get old. They're fans and I love them! It's just a fun game to play.

I enjoy going into the studio and working with really good musicians and not telling them what I want. I like to let them hear it and react. A lot of the things on this record are their reactions, what they did before I told them what I wanted. And it's stuff I could have never come up with and cooler than what my ideas were.

Musicians never retire. We play every month for Bay Pines, and we play at the Sunshine Center near the Coliseum and at the Palladium.