Anthony found me and took me to lunch - where I tried to borrow money from him so I could get high. My mom called Anthony Kiedis and said, “Seth’s fucking up.” He’s a buddy the Peppers are a huge inspiration to us. No, I went on a destructive rampage and disappeared. So, did you chill out when you got back home? They arrested me, and my management said, “You need to come home and chill out.” So we lasted only two weeks. I was drunk, going through my breakup, and I threw a chair out a window. What is the craziest thing that’s happened to you on tour? Ever since I was conceived, I was around music. He actually directed a Rolling Stones movie, Ladies and Gentlemen: The Rolling Stones. My dad did a lot of art-direction work for Chess Records - a lot of blues, and Buddy Miles and Chuck Berry. You got your father to design your album cover? I’ve been clean for six months now, but breaking up was the hardest thing. I was doing cocaine I was relapsing, and we were driving each other mad. We were together three years, and the breakup almost killed me. I wrote a bunch of the lyrics and told Epic, “It needs to be like ‘Under the Bridge’ - you know, really pretty, mellow.” He looped part of the Chili Peppers’ “Pretty Little Ditty.” The lyrics are about my ex-girlfriend.
I was basically being a rock star without making a record. I was a skateboarder, and that got me a bunch of Levi’s commercials. Retail, selling drugs, promoting clubs - working wherever I could make money being an oddball. How did you make a living during those nine years? We didn’t even think about a record deal until we started running out of money and going to rehab, and I got arrested. We’d do one song and celebrate for six months. For nine years, we made music on drugs in a loft in downtown L.A. I loved his beats and sang him a couple of my songs, and by the end of the week we had three songs. Nine years ago, I was working with Black Eyed Peas, and I walked down the hall: Epic had a studio with all these platinum records. I got out, and I’ve been pretty good ever since. They put me in the wrong part of the prison, so I was there with psychopathic wife beaters and murderers. I was on Fox II News for an extra week, because they couldn’t find one of my friends, so they had my picture with Captured over my face. The next morning we got surrounded by cop cars at 7-Eleven. So I ran away to Sebastopol, but I had to come back to do this big showcase at the House of Blues. And when you get away from the police, they’re really mad at you. I went to rob him, but it backfired I got into a police chase and got away. I thought, “No one talks shit about my carpets.” I was listening to too much Biggie Smalls and watching too much Reservoir Dogs. And then it got personal: He said the carpets in my house were dirty. He was selling it for fun - I was selling it because I needed the money. I was selling weed, and this rich guy was also selling weed. But when I was eighteen or nineteen, I was on L.A.’s Most Wanted. I’d have girls in the car and bring them stuffed animals and roses.Īnd they knew it came from the heart because you’d taken the time to shoplift it. Then I’d walk out the front door with the cart, saying, “Mom?” Most of the time, I’d get six to seven hundred dollars’ worth of stuff. So when we had parties, I would go to the supermarket and fill up the shopping cart with everything we could want - alcohol, food - and then on the top, I’d put paper towels, bird-seed and some tampons. When I was sixteen, I still looked twelve. What’s the biggest thing that you ever shoplifted?
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