Los angeles Quote by Flea

Turning 50 is a little bit of a 'taking stock' moment. I feel probably a little dumber. I don't think I'm as sharp as I was when I was younger, but I'm definitely wiser and less likely to make gigantic blunders of an intellectual, spiritual, emotional or physical type.

— Flea

I studied chord theory and started playing the piano.

— Flea

When I first heard about Twittering, I thought it was the most disgusting thing I'd ever heard of in my life. It's like the devil: the idea that your personal life is there for everybody.

— Flea

I like the idea of acting. Of all these things I've done, sometimes I think I've done well, and sometimes I think I didn't do well, but they are more cameos, and I come in and be crazy.

— Flea

I had a friend who had been teaching music for a long time, and he knew a bunch of teachers, so I just put up the money and started a school.

— Flea

Outside of a couple of times I ran without eating right or being too tired, I always feel great after I run.

— Flea

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.

— Flea

I just lucked into this weird, little obscure cameoesque film career. I just love being a part of film history.

— Flea

I worked full time jobs, basically doing manual labor until I could make enough money supporting myself as a musician.

— Flea

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

— Flea

Music is made up out of these building blocks. Studying how these blocks go together and what they consist of and the math of how it works - it's all the same stuff; it's just different aesthetics that we're talking about.

— Flea

A big part of my life is music education because it changed my life - but arts, academics and athletics should all be equally treated in the school.

— Flea