The amazing thing about Freak Out! was that there was nothing quite like it in rock 'n roll at the time. It was really simultaneously crude and ugly, and incredibly sophisticated. The Beatles were funny, but there was nothing with the kind of sneer that you could feel in the music of Frank Zappa.

It's just hard not to listen to TV: it's spent so much more time raising us than parents have.

A woman is like beer. They look good, they smell good, and you'd step over your own mother just to get one!

Our solution on 'The Simpsons' is to do jokes that people who have an education, or some frame of reference, can get. And for the ones who don't, it doesn't matter, because we have Homer banging his head and saying, 'D'oh!'

Actually, I've been working on a plan. During the exam, I'll hide under some coats, and hope that somehow everything will work out.

I've been deadline-driven for my whole grown-up life, and that hasn't gone away. It is nice to be able to reflect about the big picture, about what kind of stories you want to tell, and how to take advantage of success.

God often gives nuts to toothless people.