You should listen to your heart, and not the voices in your head.

When I look at the smiles on all the children's faces...I just know they're about to jab me with something.

Lisa: 'Do we have any food that wasn't brutally slaughtered?' Homer: 'Well, I think the veal died of loneliness.'

American culture has a lot of great moustaches in its history. Mark Twain had a great moustache, Charlie Chaplin, Ben Turpin ... but Zappa, he's got the best moustache in American history. Got the moustache, right, and he's got that little thing on his chin, I think it's called an imperial, that is, like, the coolest thing. That's like one of the great icons of the twentieth century.

I was always frightened by taverns. They just seemed like very unpleasant places to go.

I like the 'Simpsons' pinball machines. Those are pretty great.

I would prefer to listen to a French classical composer like Olivier Messiaen than to the pop hits of the day.