John Frusciante

Any guitar solo should reflect the music that it's soloing over and not just be existing in its own sort of little world.

For me my friendship with Omar Rodriguez from Mars Volta that friendship really means a lot to me because he's another creative person who works as hard as I do.

For me it's important to be in balance. To not let fear get in the way of things, to not worry so much about protecting yourself all the time.

The main thing experience has taught me is that one has to sort of hone their relationship to time, you know.

Mainly, I don't like it when music is made solely to impress people or in order to please business people; it doesn't sound good to me. If you're making music in order to become famous or loved by the masses... that's not what I'm about. When somebody's making music for the wrong reasons, I hear it right away.