PF: The alchemy. We have a lot of history, first of all, and when you have a history like that, you can't just write it off. I don't know how long you've ever been with one woman, but there are idiosyncrasies to everybody, and to know those idiosyncrasies and understand those idiosyncrasies and to be able to play off of each other -- to know when the other one is down and it's your time to lift -- those little things are special. It's like Dave once said in an interview: "When I'd run across the stage and play to the other side, I'd watch Perry, and he wouldn't even look at me, yet he'd jump up in time with my chord changes." It's little things like that. It may seem small and minor, but like the butterfly wing concept, these little things in total affect the universe in a major way. And you do those things musically, too. Dave might have a cry to his guitar that's similar to the crying note that I've left off on the chorus. Those things make us Jane's Addiction, and they are identifiable. Other people's playing might be great, but they're just not making it all add up to what we are.

PB: Why'd you bring Lollapalooza back after six years? And how involved are you this time around?

PF: This year, I was very, very involved, from the very first act we brought to the table, which was Audioslave. In part, I think that's why people actually gravitated back toward it, because they wanted to know that Jane's Addiction and I were going to be as strong a part of it and as integral to the festival as we were originally. That is definitely the case. And we had something very important that we wanted to add to the whole festival experience: The idea of becoming an interactive and fully wired festival. It was six years in the making, but the technology was not quite in place before this. Now, everybody's got a cell phone in their back pocket, so we can play games in a new way where you've never experienced a concert like this.

PB: Lollapalooza in the 1990s had an amazing sense of community among concertgoers, but that was a particular moment in time. Is it possible to capture that with a new audience and have the tour mean more than just a day's entertainment in the sun?

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