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It's fun to just get out there and have a nice conversation when I'm running. To be honest, when I do longer runs, the trail that I like to run up in Malibu has mountain lions, so I always feel I want to run with someone else.

~Flea

Topics: Always Conversation Else Feel Fun Get Honest Just Like Lions Longer Mountain Nice Out Run Running Runs Someone To Be Honest Trail Up Want

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When I was growing up, in L.A., I went to these schools, Fairfax High School, Bancroft Junior High School, and they had great music departments. I always played in the orchestra, the jazz band, the marching band.

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Topics: Always Band Departments Great Great Music Growing Growing Up Had High High School Jazz Junior Junior High Junior High School Marching Marching Band Music Orchestra Played School Schools Up

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I was raised to think that rock was music for ignorant people who didn't think for themselves.

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Topics: Ignorant Ignorant People Music People Raised Rock Themselves Think Who I Was Raised

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We must improvise, and we must experiment, and we must do things that might go wrong, and everything we bring - the people and the equipment - must serve us in that goal.

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Topics: Bring Equipment Everything Experiment Go Goal Improvise Might Must People Serve Things Us Wrong

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I feel creatively vibrant. I have some great friends; I feel like I'm capable of giving a lot to the world. And ultimately, that's what I really care about, is just giving.

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Topics: About Capable Care Creatively Feel Friends Giving Great Great Friends Just Like Lot Really Some Ultimately Vibrant World I Feel I Feel Like

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I've always kind of been an in-the-moment kind of person. I don't think that far in advance or have any idea what's around the next corner.

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Topics: Advance Always Any Around Been Corner Far Idea Kind Next Person Think

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When I was a kid, and it was time to go to college, I thought, 'College is for people who don't have the street smarts to make it on their own - get in a band, get in a van, and get rockin'.

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Topics: Band College Get Go Kid Make Own People Smarts Street Thought Time Van Who

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I went to school and studied music for a year at USC, which unlocked a bunch of doors for me in terms of my relationship to music.

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Topics: Bunch Doors Me Music Relationship School Studied Terms Which Year

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All I knew about Ethiopia was from a few records that I like, as well as what I read about the famine. But you get there and it's another world. It's filled with art and music and poetry and intellectuals and writers - all kinds of people.

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Topics: About Another Art Ethiopia Famine Few Filled Get Intellectuals Kinds Knew Like Music People Poetry Read Records Well World Writers You

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For me, music was the only reason I went to school. I was kind of a street kid, in a lot of trouble committing crimes and stuff. Music gave me something to focus on.

~Flea

Topics: Committing Crimes Focus Gave Kid Kind Lot Me Music Only Reason School Something Street Stuff Trouble

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Biography

Nationality: Australian

Type: Musician

Born: October 16th, 1962

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