Pop music is a fashion, and fashions come and go. The public retires you as their tastes change.

- Cliff Martinez

I like challenges and I definitely would like to be more of a chameleon.

- Cliff Martinez

I got fed up with being in bands. I spent a couple of years touring the country in a smoked filled band, doing lots of drugs and being really unhealt…

- Cliff Martinez

The more I come to understand music, the more I feel like a numbskull because there is always more to learn.

- Cliff Martinez

I live in Topanga Canyon, which is like a faux-rustic enclave in Los Angeles. I love the sounds of all the critters outside - the frogs, owls, cricke…

- Cliff Martinez

I work at home but average 15,000 to 18,000 miles per year on my Honda.

- Cliff Martinez

I was in the Chilli Peppers at the time and I asked myself, would I be able to wear a sock on my genitals at the age of forty and they proved me wron…

- Cliff Martinez

I've always been very left of center and the radio never had much diversity and film did.

- Cliff Martinez

I actually don't see that strong of a connection between my background as a rock 'n roller and my early films. In a way I think your musical identity…

- Cliff Martinez