Flea

Not at all.

It's so energetic.

But it's what, you know, there's the strange workings of my mind.

I don't know.

But it was, yeah, right in the morning, just woke up and was doing it.

And that felt really, it felt nice.

And, you know, I went into my music, got up, went to my music room and scratched it down on a piece of paper.

And there it was.

Straight ahead jazz, bebop, the music exemplified by Charlie Parker and Fats Navarro and Thelonious Monk.

They played jazz like that.

And my stepfather came into my life when I was about...

seven years old, six or seven.

And the first time that I ever saw him play with his friends in New York, his buddies came over to the house, set up in the living room, and they started throwing down.

They played fast.

They played furiously.

They played with great tenderness.

They played with great violence and physicality.

And it was wild.

Well, for me, all music is music.

So if I think of punk rock, you take a song like Nervous Breakdown by Black Flag and it goes, I'm about to have a nervous breakdown.