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And the other one is three.
And I've been a different person for each one of them.
You know, I've been a different kind of parent.
Yeah, it's true.
They're all 17 years apart.
And 17 years, if one is willing to feel the pain and suffering of being a human being, you're going to grow.
So I'm grateful for growth and I'm grateful for humility and I'm grateful to be a student.
Very much so.
And I, you know, I've had the great fortune to play with Ornette Coleman on a number of occasions.
And he was very kind to me.
And I've admired him since I was a very young man.
You know, you think like, you know, when we started with Chili Peppers, we were listening to Ornette constantly.
And I still, you know, play whenever I get the chance with his son, Donardo, who's, you know, very welcoming and, you know, to me.
Sure, yeah, because it's actually something I remember quite clearly is waking up one morning and feeling an abundance of sadness and being moved to tears by circumstances in my life.
And at the same time, I was lying there and I was just like crying.
And at the same time, I was lying, you know, in that kind of ethereal state when you wake up kind of in between being asleep and being awake.
And I was to myself, you know,
And I was just singing that to myself.
And it's funny because it's not really a sad-sounding melody.