They use all of the music that I did in the '50s, '60s and the '70s behind people like Tupac and LL Cool J. I'm into all that stuff.
I've been touted for my guacamole. I'll stand by my method. People have asked me to come to their home and prepare it. Restaurants have asked me about it.
I hate leaving home. I love what I do, but I'd love to go home every night.
I can turn on some jazz guitarist, and he won't do a thing for me, if he's not playing electrically. But Jeff Beck's great to listen to.
And we'd drink huge amounts of scotch and coke, which is a ghastly sweet drink... And now people don't drink nearly as much, for good reason. We're all a little wiser.
Everyone goes through the ups and downs of living - fretting about the future, worrying about what happened. Music teaches us how to be in the moment.
Life is too full of distractions nowadays. When I was a kid we had a little Emerson radio and that was it. We were more dedicated. We didn't have a choice.
You can grow up with literally nothing and you don't suffer if you know you're loved and valued.
There is an assumption that if you're young and pretty, you will get all these opportunities that are way beyond your musical foundation.
They credited us with the birth of that sort of heavy metal thing. Well, if that's the case, there should be an immediate abortion.
People are afraid of things they don't understand. They don't know how to relate. It threatens their security, their existence, their career, image.
Some people think I'm a rock 'n' roll musician and some think I'm a jazz musician but, for me, there is no difference.
The Chili Peppers have a real strict two-week on/two-week off policy - aside from me, everybody has families.
I don't watch TV, I don't spend time on the Internet, and I don't party much. I don't text very much, either.
Thanksgiving was always a favorite holiday for me. The preparation was fun! My grandma and I would walk to the butcher on Jamaica Avenue in Queens, order the bird, and buy all the fixings at the market.
Nick Dunne: Your parents literally plagiarized your childhood? Amy Dunne: No, they improved upon it, and then peddled it to the masses.
I knew what book we had to write, it was clear in my head; it was journals and poetry. So I passed on their offer. I told my agent this is our vision, and no one's done it this way.
I think that people should learn about that. In most music, there's one way that you do something, and that's the only way. In jazz, it's a lot different.
Engineering producers who don't play and have technology as a background may be the reason why there's a lot of cold non-musical music, for lack of a better description.
I can take any series of numbers and turn it into music, from Bach to bebop, Herbie Hancock to hip-hop.
The BBC were not playing the music that was happening on the street so we did an independent production because we knew we had an audience. Then we licensed the album to EMI.
