“Eventually, I became entranced with the idea of getting under the narrative, to find out the ‘why’ of my early life,” he said. “I thought I would just write about the band because who would be arrogant enough to think anyone would care about my childhood?” he said.īut, given the amount of violence, drug use and sometimes useful adventure in his past, this clearly wasn’t just any childhood. Not that this was Flea’s original game plan.