Flea
Flea
Fleas are insects that form the order Siphonaptera. They are wingless, with mouthparts adapted for piercing skin and sucking blood. Fleas are external parasites, living by hematophagy off the blood of mammals and birds...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionBassist
Date of Birth16 October 1962
CityMelbourne, Australia
CountryAustralia
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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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I was raised to think that rock was music for ignorant people who didn't think for themselves.
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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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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.
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All my career, all that I've really done has been based on emotion and intuition and gravitating toward what sounds good.
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Bands develop their own weird ways of doing things.
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I grew up being terrified of my parents, particularly my father figures.
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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.
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I studied chord theory and started playing the piano.
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I studied music at the most remedial level when I was a kid, through the Los Angeles public schools, with a little private instruction.
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I'm a performer and have managed to get my performing into the mainstream consciousness of the world, I guess.
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Kids deserve arts, and it's just as important as science, math, history, English or athletics.
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Outside of a couple of times I ran without eating right or being too tired, I always feel great after I run.
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When something comes up, and it's interesting, and I have the time, I'll do it.