John Frusciante Quotations | Page 2

Rock guitarists usually do not wish to think trains of thought about anything but their own guitar playing during a long solo, and I could not play this way if I were not able to divide my attention between my ever changing musical environment and my instrument itself.

I don't have an extensive background in theory, but the amount of it that I've learned, I've applied, so I have a vocabulary of melodic and rhythmic relationships. And that's all theory is - it's symbols to help you identify those relationships.

So I use a tape recorder a lot to record ideas.

Pagers are my life--I try to get them in to our music as much as possible.

And this whole period of time of gradually working at being a better guitar player and songwriter have gradually led me to the point where I feel I'm doing a clearer representation of the thing that I've been feeling inside me since I was four years old.

The Will to Death is what keeps me alive

All I know is that the six months when I recorded this music was the most productive time of my life, and I'll always remember it as the first time in my life that I ever felt like I was one with my dreams.

I think an analogue synth is an extension of the natural world.

I write songs because I have to write them, and if I didn't I'd be doing some other kind of music that didn't require a song.

I just feel like the songs that come out are the songs that come.