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Anthony Kiedis has never written so many lyrics for a single album before the Red Hot Chili Peppers' forthcoming record Unlimited Love.
Kiedis said in a recent interview that his bandmates Flea, Chad Smith and John Frusciante wrote so much new music for the album that he kept running out of words.
"I love all varieties of lyric writing, abstract being one of my favorites," the frontman said. "Because so much has already been said in songs along the way I like to find some new way of adding to a song lyrically that isn't predictable."
Kiedis admitted that his own contributions to the writing sessions were "way behind schedule," that's not terrible out of character.
"The band will write 20 songs and I'll be like, 'I'll get to those lyrics post-haste,' he continued. "But now I've got 20 songs to add to and then it was 20 more and then it was more."
The 17 songs that made it to the final cut of the album are more raw lyrically than anything Kiedis has done before, he says, because he "did not have the luxury of editing or censoring."
"Whatever came I had to make use of ... because there was too much waiting for me to get to. Usually, I'll be like, 'Hmm, maybe, maybe not.' But in this case, I wa like, 'If it came tome, it's in the song. Next.'"
Unlimited Love arrives Friday, April 1. A day earlier, the Chili Peppers will be honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
RHCP's Unlimited Love world tour kicks off in June. Get all the tour dates here.