Australian - Musician | October 16, 1962 -
My father was out of my life when I was pretty young - when I was 7 years old, he was gone. I didn't see him for the rest of my childhood.
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I got my love of jazz from my stepfather, who was a jazz musician.
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I was raised to think that rock was music for ignorant people who didn't think for themselves.
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Being a dad and being in the Red Hot Chili Peppers and all the stuff I have to do... The trumpet requires a lot of diligence, and I haven't had the time.
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When something comes up, and it's interesting, and I have the time, I'll do it.
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I wanted to play in a band, and I wanted to do music for a living, and that's what I dedicated my life to.
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I studied chord theory and started playing the piano.
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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.
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We always write way more than we put on a record. We always write a lot-lot.
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I like the idea of acting. Of all these things I've done, sometimes I think I've done well, and sometimes I think I didn't do well, but they are more cameos, and I come in and be crazy.
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With acting, I always feel conscious of what I'm doing.
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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.
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