Here's the way the licensing works ... If you write a song, nobody can record your song before you do without your permission. But, once the song is recorded, they can get what's called a 'compulsory license', and they can record the tune, but they have to pay you royalties.

The FCC extorts broadcasters by threatening to take away their licenses for infringements which are usually the result of complaints from an extreme, right wing, tiny bunch of individuals.

Am I a boy or a lady, I don't know which?

Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence.

Interviewer: 'So Frank, you have long hair. Does that make you a woman?' Frank Zappa: 'You have a wooden leg. Does that make you a table?

The most abundant element in the Universe is stupidity

I don't want to spend my life explaining myself. You either get it, or you don't.