Flea

There's a lot of pitfalls out there.

There's many times when I was unkind and thoughtless and there were times when people were very unkind, very thoughtless with me from other people who I was running around in the street with who also were not getting good moral guidelines.

I feel lucky in a lot of ways that...

I did always feel a desire to be good.

I wanted to be good.

I wanted to be kind.

And I messed up without doubt, but I was always trying.

But there's advantages in that, one, I had to learn how to survive.

I'm a survivor.

I know how to survive in the street.

Um, two, though I didn't have a strong sense of family at home and, you know, occasionally we had love and togetherness, but it was pretty, there were, it was fleeting, very fleeting.

Um, I looked for family with my friends that I found, like for instance, the red hot chili peppers.

particularly me and Anthony and Halal, we found, and Halal, you know, we all had families, and I guess I can only speak for myself.

It would be bad for me to speak for someone else, that I really looked for family and the feeling of family with my friends.

And in that kind of searching and trying to create a family, we had bonds, and I felt bonds, that were very significant to me.

um, like a blood bond.

And so like when we started a band, um, there's this thing there that it's not just musicians playing notes that work together to play songs with rhythms and harmonies that we like.

It's this other thing.

It's this like, you can't with us.

I did.