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

Frank [Zappa] said he probably would have been a major criminal, given his brain power and his attention to detail, had he not been a composer. But being a composer is not something you can't help.

The problem with composers is that they are the most unrequired job in America.

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

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.

I think it's okay that there's digital music out there, because that does mean more people have access. I mean, you're a student, and you're studying music, and you want to find a CD of a whole work, but there's one piece that intrigues you. It's easy to get that piece for a dollar for the most part. And it's so easy for people to carry around music digitally.

Certainly Apple has improved enormously. At the beginning, the sampling rate was an issue for me, but a bigger argument was over digital rights, which I had.