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

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 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.

Frank [Zappa]'s music was never for the mass audience. His music contains specific kinds of information that you won't find elsewhere in rock and roll.

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

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.