Red Hot Chili Peppers: creating the modern Rock 'n' Roll lifestyle was the easy part. The trick was surviving it

Interview, August, 2002 by Carlo McCormick

CM: Is it OK to call it a more mature record?

CS: Yeah, why not? But we're not boring. [laughs] We may be old, but we're not boring.

CM: Spectacle has been such a part of the shtick. Like with the live shows.

CS: [laughs] Yeah, we had a shtick. Everybody's got to have a shtick. We like to entertain.

CM: Have you figured out--

CS: --new shtick?

CM: Obviously certain things have been retired, like dancing girls in cages and socks.

CS: Sadly. You cannot really go there anymore. But by now we are an exciting band without all of the distractions.