I think ingenuity is part of our DNA. That plus curiosity, plus the willingness to commit.

If you've ever had to recall your past in some way and you open a drawer of old photographs that your parents kept, there are always pictures of you smiling and charming, and then a bunch of people you don't know who they are. Could be aunts, uncles, could be the postman for all you know. Who are these people? Your parents are never in the picture, because they are the ones taking them. So you've got these unrelated images that are disconnected from your memories.

I never dreamed that my future would be my husband's past. But it's such a huge past in terms of the recorded content.

My obligation is to release the music the way Frank [Zappa] released it.

I don't think there's a problem with people discovering the music unless there's no way to get to them. That's the problem that you always have.

It's the ultimate identity theft when you start messing with somebody's work. Thinking that you could edit the work, or mix it differently, or re-EQ it, or make claims about it that aren't true.

When you have a single composer writing his work, it shouldn't be doled out in singles based on the length of a piece.