My dad was a big Frank Zappa fan, so I remember listening to a lot of Frank Zappa. Girls do not like Frank Zappa.
Frank Zappa... was Beethoven for insane rock guys.
Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
A drug is not bad. A drug is a chemical compound. The problem comes in when people who take drugs treat them like a license to behave like an asshole.
For the record, folks; I never took a shit on stage and the closest I ever came to eating shit anywhere was at a Holiday Inn buffet in Fayetteville, North Carolina, in 1973.
Definition of rock journalism: People who can't write, doing interviews with people who can't think, in order to prepare articles for people who can't read.
Zappa was very technical and impressed by things that were musically challenging - weird time signatures, strange keys, awkward chord sequences. Zappa was important to me as an example of everything I didn't want to do. I'm very grateful to him, actu...
Art is everywhere, and everywhere is art.
I have no one style.
I'm not looking for guidance.
The blues is life itself.
Change is not an event, it's a process.
I'm creative; I'm not re-creative.
My mum is a big collector of art.
I'm completely hooked on polo.
Music should always be an adventure.
I felt I was painting with a Popsicle.
I'd rather work than not.
The job of art is to chase ugliness away.
I'm a very conceptual writer.
We're not spokespeople, we're musicians.
