What's interesting about that is that you said you would think about not playing like anybody else. That it was a conscious thing. But what's happened over the years is that it's not a thought process anymore. It's become intuitive. I'm just playing the rhythms of my own body.
Every single person has their own individual thing.
And so few people dare to embrace their individuality. I had to listen to. I don't just want to call it funk, because the Chili Peppers are so much more than a funk band. But it was definitely heavily funk- influenced, which was an influence I never had. So that was something I had to look into.