"I'm not a funk a funk guitarist and I don't like funk. It makes me feel dumb and I can't relate to music that makes me feel dumb."
"I'm the same person no matter what year it is. I've grown more as a musician and as a human being but I don't really adjust my playing to fit the format of the decade." (response to being questioned as being a product of the Eighties)
"Los Angeles is my favorite city in the world. I would never live anywhere else. I feel that we have everything, event the cliche of L.A. being this melting pot of people struggling to make it-the superficial what-kind-of-car-do-you-have thing. In some breakfast-cereal kind of way, I love that. I really love how I never know how I'm going to feel when I wake up in the morning. This city is so powerful that at a flip of a coin it can make me feel on top of the world, or like the most insecure, vulnerable person on the planet."
"It was a really heavy experiance for me, and its affected every relationship I've been in since." (In regards to the murder of his mother, Constance.)
"I wouldn't be happy if I hadn't looked into certain sides of sexuality, experimented with drugs, or picked up a guitar for that matter."
"When I listen to music that is really dark, I get this overwhelming sensation that I'm not alone, that I'm not crazy, It's a little comforting."
"I almost had a nervous breakdown cause it just...It brought back so much memories, ya know."(Referring to the night when Dave joined Perry and Stephen to play at a Porno for Pyros concert this past year in New York)
"Yeah, I mean when you are in a band, you have intimate relationships with people and just...they're almost lovers in a metaphoric sense or sometimes in a literal sense. But you know, that's what intimate people do. They have conflicts and disagreements but the love never really goes away ya know?"(Dave speaking on his hateful reltionship with Perry during the days of Jane's Addiction)
"It's more like a relationship with a women than a man, because everyone's so much more sensitive including myself. we're sensitive in so many ways. Not only emotionally and spiritually but creatively...the way we play together, it's very sensitive. I don't know if I'm making sense."(Dave on the relationship he has with the other Chili Peppers)
"There weren't too many ups in the other band, although I enjoyed it. It's hard to explain, but I enjoyed the downs. You know why? Because there's no bottom that can fall out from under you."(Dave on the down/upside of being in Jane's)
"I do more now, but I'm personally not comfortable deciding that I should be comfortable."(On considering himself a member of The Red Hot Chili Peppers)
"In my closet I have black T-Shirts hanging, and socks and underwear that should always be black." "You never know when you might be in a situation where you might have to take them off and if they're white there's a chance they may be less than clean looking"
"I don't trust anyone. Its not to say that I'm Mr. Depressing Guy. I'm just saying I walk around with an awareness that shit happens. So when something good happens I'm happy. In that way I'm constantly surprised by life."
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