“I woke up that morning, and, uh, my girlfriend at the time, Toni Oswald, uh — she picked out this outfit for me. She just went in my closet and, um… She might not have actually even officially been my girlfriend yet at that point, but she went in my closet, and she-she picked out that shirt and those pants and those shoes and that hat. Uh, and-and that’s… and that’s what I wore to the video. And when I got there, Gus Van Sant was just looking at me and he was just going, “God, I’m so glad you wore that hat. I’m so glad you wore that shirt. Oh, those pants are so great. I’m so glad you wore those. He-He just kept complimenting my… outfit. And-and, uh, it was the first time, you know, in this video that-that I’d made that decision to just stand there and play the song, rather than jumping around; but the music obviously seemed like it called for that.”
John Frusciante
