"This song I wrote about my dad. I'm really close to my dad even though we kinda see things differently a lot of the time. He was pretty old when I wrote this. It's called Winter." - Australian Radio JJJFM 6/7/92

"Summoned to the piano, this Russian music box round played me over and over til I was wrapped in a blanket with the memory of cinnamon apples on my tongue and boys that didn't. 'We' went back to where I felt no time - it was all happening again, presently." -Little Earthquakes Piano book 1992

"My father's here tonight. I remember he took me for this walk in the mountains, and it was snowing and it got inside of my boots and made my feet cold. But I'll never forget it because it was the first time in a long time that we had connected. I wrote this for him." - Chili Pepper, Ft Lauderdale, FL 4/18/98

"You don't just walk into the Winter's and the 1000 Ocean's because they are difficult to deliver (live). There has to be fluidity to pull that off. At the same time you have to have your own personal rhythm, you can't let the audience determine it for you. You don't make records by committee, just like you don't do shows with other people setting your pace for you. Although sometimes if I know it'll be a moment of love, I'll give them what they want." - Attitude 10/01

"I'll be performing songs from other records, because I'm touring now doing scarlet's walk, so I have to go to my own map, which means others songs like God, other songs like Winter, they're part of my body map." - BBC Radio2 10/14/02