When Frank Zappa would get an idea for a song, he just did it. He didn't wait for anybody or expect anyone to do it.

Acting, at least for me, is very unreal, and when I'm doing it, I actually feel embarrassed.

I don't believe in 'greatest'. I believe in favorites.

That's the thing about great artists: They find the thing that's most obvious to themselves, what's most conscious and natural, and they put it out there and the audience comes.

I don't think I approach my songs differently from other artists. You get a big picture of it, and you imagine the song and hear and feel it, and that big picture is like a snapshot, and it comes to you as fast as it takes to click a camera.

When I was a teenager in the '70s, I was really into those great bands like Led Zeppelin and Queen and Jethro Tull, Deep Purple, Alice Cooper.

Find what you're best at and exaggerate it.