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….

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 ….

Music doesn't solve your problems..but allows you to dance all over them.

There's something about the rawness of the live thing, there's no rhythm guitars behind the solo, nothing other than what you hear the people playing….

The Meatbats are a throwback band..

I just played at a club in L.A. called the Baked Potato. It fits like 90 people. It's like playing somewhere in a basement in, like, Indiana or somew….

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

Drums all have their own particulars - each drum has a place where they sound the best - where they ring out and resonate the best, and the head surf….

I feel like in order to challenge yourself you have to get out of and do things that feel wrong at first and find new things. It's important to look ….

I took a private lesson, but it didn't really work out, so I went back to playing along with records. That's really the thing that got me into playin….

Sometimes one of us will have a riff or a bass line from home but it really gels when we come together. We really have a strong special chemistry tha….

In some of the L.A. clubs, people can act too cool to get into your music. That can get to be a bit much..

Playing well with others is important - not being too flashy, just keeping good time and of course coming up with cool beats. A good snare drum, kick….

Cardiff Stadium was a warm up for the 3 Hyde Park shows. James Brown opened. And I think it may be the only time we played Mini Epic live..

Flea and Anthony are into funk, like old school Meters and stuff like that..

Family time is really important to me..

Edible names are what drives me as a musician. My next band will be called the Hot Dogs..

Playing along with records is key. And as far as equipment goes it has gotten so much more affordable and the drum sets are of great quality. I play ….

I was in every band class I could get in, like after school jazz band and marching band, and that's where I really learned to read music from element….

The juxtaposition of words - the color, feeling, and sound of the words together - has as much to do with the story as the narrative itself does..

Its very sort of spontaneous and organic, not a preconceived sort of jamming. Now we record everything, cause sometimes you'll forget, you know, 'wha….