# John Frusciante

John Anthony Frusciante (born 5 March 1970) was the guitarist of the Californian band Red Hot Chili Peppers, with whom he has featured on five studio recordings (Mother's Milk, Blood Sugar Sex Magik, Californication, By The Way, and Stadium Arcadium), two greatest hits packages (What Hits!? and Greatest Hits) and two live albums (Live In Hyde Park and Live At Slane Castle). He also has an active solo career, having released eight albums as well as collaborations with friends Josh Klinghoffer of The Bicycle Thief and Dot Hacker, Omar Rodriguez Lopez from The Mars Volta and Joe Lally of Fugazi.

## Quotes

* We have the ability to change our own reality.
* Sexual frustration is the single most powerful force in the world. We are the only species where that frustration affects things like the amount of money given to the poor and the length of welfare lines. I hate that the fact that George Bush's wife is an ugly old piece of shit could cause suffering among millions and could cause wars. I don't think it's any coincidence that Kennedy was the last president who had a wife worth fucking and he was the last good president.
** Spin Magazine Interview, Feb, 1990, http://www.invisible-movement.net/articles/1988-1992/1990-02-spin/2
* Pot put me in a position where I could walk far away from my playing and hear it in the second person. It helped me step away from myself. I stopped seeing the guitar as a thing I'm holding in my hands and started seeing it as a thing that's at one with outer space and nothingness.
** High Times Magazine, July, 1995, http://www.invisible-movement.net/articles/1993-1997/1995-07-hightimes
* I can't say that I'm crazy, you know, about watching this. I don't like the person who I was back at this time, and-and, uh... I think I had all my priorities in the wrong places and I think if I were to spend to much time playin guitar as I did picking out stupid shorts and stupid hats and stupid, you know, overcoats, I would've... I would've been able to write some good songs, you know? I can't watch this version of myself and be at all happy about it. I want to... I want to strangle myself when I see this video. I was 18 years old. 18-year-old that deserved to be slapped upside his head.
** On "Higher Ground" video audio commentary - Red Hot Chili Peppers Greatest Videos
* I guess this is the first time in a video that I ever showed my arms since my arms have been scarred, 'cause my arms are-are pretty badly scarred. I guess people are always wondering so I might as well say that, um, that the way that my arms got the way that they look, um, is was from abcesses, which came from shooting huge amounts of drugs. The results could have been a lot worse, so I'm happy to have the scars from a period of my life where I was living destructively, just as a... as a sign of what I've been through. And, uh, these days, I-I'm, you know, being healthy and taking care of my body is so important to me. But looking at it here, is seems like my arms have gotten better since then, so... That's nice to see.
** On "Californication" video audio commentary - Red Hot Chili Peppers Greatest Videos
* Pagers are my life--I try to get them in to our music as much as possible.
** On "By The Way" Documentary
* Well, I don't even know how to drive in this life, so I'm pretty far from ever having the life of being a stuntdouble. I liked- I had an Evil Knievel doll when i was a kid, that's about it!
** On "By The Way" Documentary
* A child has this relationship to a creative force, you know? Yeah, your parents gradually, you know, they gradually shove your face in the concrete, and so do your teachers and school system and…everything’s working against you, but…but…but the force of creativity nature is not working against you - it’s right there for you, at any time! You just…you know, you just have to be ready not to judge yourself and to be open to whatever’s gonna come through you and to-to be ready to not…to not…eeeh to not judge what comes through, but be alright with it, whatever it is, cause it’s just the universe of expressing yourself.
** On "The Heart is a Drum Machine" Documentary
* I think any music of any worth has been done by people who were very interested in the internal process of their soul and their mind that's taking place while they're writing music.
** On "The Heart is a Drum Machine" Documentary

## Lyrics
### Niandra Lades and Usually Just a T-Shirt (1994)

* In your pussy I'm cumming And I love you, and always had to Thank God I found you
** As Can Be
* The curtains were made for moving Cause you know sometimes you're not always there
** Curtains
* I've been in pain hope it doesn't show I've been insane well the time is slow
** Been Insane
* You’re pushing me away to decay like the day that I loved
** Untitled #3
* I've never been very smart but I connect you with your shadow
** Untitled # 11

### To Record Only Water for Ten Days (2000)

* I fail to do What I'm trying I've been these walls And everyone who dies Hears other times
** In Rime
* All around they is to feel and watch you they make patterns to peel the sound
** Moments Have You
* You don't throw your life away Going Inside You get to know who's watching you And besides you resides in your body
** Going Inside
* Dream that you died It takes you out of your mind The black walls of space Take me all the way
** Wind Up Space

### Shadows Collide with People (2004)

* You know this moment in time Is all my life Every day is each day that's passed Every person alive is everyone's who's died
** Every Person
* I guide my fate And what it's good for There's no telling It's blood It's a flood
** The Slaughter
* Dedicating all of before to now emphasizing these things that won't allow
** Omission
* I have seen the world enough I've drowned in my thoughts alot I canceled heaven I concede
** Wednesday's song

### The Empyrean (2009)

* Well, I don't need protection One life begins, another dies Bad timing I won't last
** Heaven
* I'm dreading the time that is not near As a man on a cross I have no fear I can't believe these words I'm saying You've got to feel your lines
** Central
* A slave in the fields one night He's running along Gets far enough to be a free man And he's feeling so strong
** Ah Yom
* Everything is eternal Nothingness does not exist No thing has ever become nothing And nothing has never become something What is has always been and will always be
** After the Ending

## External links

* John Frusciante's official site