Why The Red Hot Chili Peppers songs don talk about politics?
“I’m not interested in politics. Anthony and Flea are, but they don’t want their political ideas to be part of the music we do. It’s fine that there’re people worried about what’s happening around but it doesn’t work for me. When people come and ask me about how we do to be so well with the time I can say that my method is, like when I was recording Californication, watch films from the 40’s, the same ones that Hendrix and Lennon had seen. I don’t watch TV, I don’t listen to the radio. If I’d always listen the news I’d be like the people who do it”. Anthony Kiedis has written his autobiography, will you write yours? “I write a lot, I have my things in the computer, maybe in five years I’ll dedicate it more time…But by now I’m still in the process to understand what my true thoughts are. I don’t think I’m going to write any autobiography, except if I get some internal clarity. Some incredible things had happened to me but I can’t remember them sufficiently clearly to write it. Not yet
