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

If something is too hard to do, then it's not worth doing. You just stick that guitar in the closet next to your shortwave radio, your karate outfit and your unicycle and we'll go inside and watch TV.

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.

There's always room out there for the hand-drawn image. I personally like the imperfection of hand drawing as opposed to the slick look of computer animation. But you can do good stuff either way. The Pixar movies are amazing in what they do, but there's plenty of independent animators who are doing really amazing things as well.

My standard comment is, If you don't want your kids to be like Bart Simpson, don't act like Homer Simpson.

Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It's what separates us from the animals... except the weasel.

But we all had an agreement to let each other get away with everything! That's Capitalism!