The bassist for the Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Flea, said he “kind of” believes in God.
The 60-year-old said he is a “praying guy.”
“I pray in the morning when I get up, when I go to bed, when I eat. And when I do an interview, I’ll just stop for a second — like, let me get out of the way and let go of everything,” Flea told the Los Angeles Times.
He continued, “I’m not religious in any way, but I kind of believe in God. And I try to live a life that honors my idea of what God is — like a divine energy.”
“For me, music is the voice of God. I grew up virulently anti-religious, and there came a time in the early ’90s, right around when I turned 30, I got really sick with chronic fatigue,” he explained.
“I’d been a drug-taking madman — party all night, play basketball all day. I just thought I was Superman. And all of a sudden it was like all the energy got sucked out of my body. I was like, I can’t go on tour, I feel too [expletive]. And I was cut off from my friends because I wasn’t partying.”
After reading a self-help book by Jon Kabat-Zinn, flea said he “started thinking about that emptiness, and in that moment God just made perfect sense.”
Reporting from Fox News:
"I thought there might be a sense of community," he said. "In the ’80s I’d go to churches in South L.A. as an atheist. I had a friend who knew where the best gospel groups were coming through, so I’d go, and it would be incredible." ... "I thought punk rock was intense. Punk rockers are a bunch of [expletive] compared to a church where people are speaking in tongues and throwing themselves on the ground," he said.
