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

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.

Frank [Zappa] was not a big fan of having lyrics, but sometimes he had things to say that lent themselves to lyrics.

If you think about how long it takes to write a piece of music for an orchestra, it's outrageous to me, outrageous.

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

Musicians more than most people are in the moment. That's the dual nature of that job.

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.