Scar Tissue was released on May 25, 1999 as the first single from the album Californication.

One day we had a misson which was to get in a truck and drive up the coast of California and write one acoustic song for our record. — Anthony Kiedis

Flea and I and Anthony just sort of put the music together, and then Flea and I took a nap. And when we woke up, Anthony had written all the lyrics to the song. — John Frusciante

It might look kind of corny, us sitting around with acoustic guitars, you know, by the beautiful beach and stuff in the house, but that’s actually how we wrote the song. — Flea

We all had to contribute different elements of our personality to, kind of, make this together and that’s why you have me swimming in the ocean with the sharks. And how Chad ended up on a snowboard, I’ll never know, because I don’t think he ever has been on a snowboard. — Anthony Kiedis

Wow, I’m a pretty good snowboarder. I’ve never snowboarded in my life. — Chad Smith

I’m, like, fighting the loggers and being a nature guy and want to save the trees and going through the woods and stuff; John really loves da Vinci a lot. They show, you know, the Mona Lisa there. Then they have da Vinci invented this flying contraption and John is in a da Vinci flying contraption. — Flea

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