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

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.

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.

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

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.

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