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MCM : Hi John, how are you?
John : Fine, I'm happy.
MCM : You're happy? But why?
John : My girlfriend's going to buy the Christmas tree today.
MCM : It's great!
John : Yeah, I love those little things that are going on in your life.
MCM : What about the video shoot ?
John : Hum... It's going OK. You know, video shoots are a lot of sitting around, so for me I was waiting, sitting in the mobile-home that we have out there, listening to Frank Zappa. You know, anybody who tells you that they like shooting videos is a liar I mean, it's boring, it's a lot of sitting around in your mobile-home. It's so much better if you can sit there and smoke pot or listen to music or you know... That's the only thing which is funny to do in a video shoot. The actual making of a movie for actors or for musicians, you know... we have almost nothing to do with it. We sort of come out for a second and they say «look that way!» and then they say «OK, go back to your lodge». It's boring but I think that this time the end result will be good, I think that the guy who directs it has style.

People say that it looks like I'm one with my guitar, and so I mean in that way, it's like a part of my body. While we were writing the album By The Way, I was going out to drum-and-bass clubs to listen to drum-and-bass and jungle music, and I danced around my face off. I became very comfortable with dancing around in public without the guitar. I'm alright without my guitar, but I prefer with my guitar. Guitar is really something I love and, I definitely feel that it's a part of me.

I experiment a lot of various things by myself at home, I make a lot of home-recording, and I do a lot of fooling around with my synthesizer and things like that. So, when it came time to record (for example By The Way), some of that experimentation comes through in my ideas. But I never do any experimentation in the studio. When we try new things with the Chili Peppers, I already have a precise idea of what I'm going to do before going in the studio, so anything that I did with the synthesizer in the studio or with other instruments, it was all clear in my head before I did it. I never experiment in the studio... But I think a lot of the experimentation I did at home end up coming out on the album.

I've always been a big believer in... huh... I've been a lot into what people can't see. I think there are certain entertainers who... what you hear when you hear their albums is everything that they have inside... For me, there's a lot of my songs that might never be heard by people. I make a lot of music that I just don't have the time to record. But I think it will all come through in some album we'll make, or songs that i do have time to record. Its just the only way I can console myself, because I don't have the time to record all that I write as quickly as I write it, but I'm sure someday I'll catch up on lost time.

I'm making a record right now and I'm working on a soundtrack for my friend's movie. About this summer I think I'll have finished the music for Vincent Gallo's movie and the other solo album that I've been working on.

I try to play in a simple way and I try to also have maybe a depth in the harmonic aspect of it. I wanted to do as much to put forward what the others do as possible to create a 'rich musical universe'. It's my natural tendency to kind of play in a more bues-rock seventyish kind of playing like the guitarists I love, like Jimmy Page or Frank Zappa or Eric Clapton or Jimi Hendrix or people like that. And I try to not play like that, just to be myself, and you know... I think my playing is pretty original, and now I'm in a completely different way, I'm a lot more like people I just mentioned. I have to keep changing and... I tried to keep this style that I had in the album (to use it) on tour, but just play a little more flashy... I've been doing this.. but it's a lot better playing following how you feel like.

I mean, it's not really a new chemistry, it's the same chemistry as is was before but I think we all appreciate each other more now. Before I didn't care at all about our chemistry but... I think the other guys didn't care either. We were kind of, in our own trip... in our own way I think we were all kind of ego-centric, we thought we were the most important one. It's definitely not that way anymore. We have a lot respect for the other guys. Each guy make sure that the other guys are happy. That's the only way to make a band work ― people can be comfortable and happy, and therefore to express themselves to the greatest degree that they're capable of.
On stage... our spontaneity and our ability of improvisation we have on stage has to do with the kind of team work that we do. The four people really trust each other, they listen to the other guys and they're supporting each other.

I have really good memories of being in France and, I like the way the air feels like and, I like the way the buildings look and, one of my top two favorite men who have lived there is Marcel Duchamp. (I like many French artists.) It makes me happy to be there.

fish don't have the capability to think or feel anything, as their brains are too small. or at least that's what i learned in biology class.

The only meat I still eat is fish. Can fish feel pain?
Research has shown that indeed they can. According to Dr. Donald Bloom, animal welfare advisor to the British government, "Anatomically, physiologically, and biologically, the pain system in fish is virtually the same as in birds and mammals." Fish have fully developed brains and nervous systems and very sensitive mouths. Fish use their tongues and mouths as humans might use their hands—to catch or gather food, build nests, and even hide their offspring from danger. Fish also experience fear. An Australian study found that when fish are chased, confined, or otherwise threatened, they react as humans do to stress: with increased heart and breathing rates and a burst of adrenalin.

The video (in French) : http://player.canalplus.fr/#/471977
(look at it, it's funny because she's speaking about John and imitating him)