Ladies and gentlemen, Ive suffered for my music ... now its your turn.

As I said, when we needed to move over to rock'n'roll, Sam and Vernon couldn't quite make the shift. So that's when Larry took over on drums, and we needed a bass player.

No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!

I think most musicians do like to have a laugh.

Eric Clapton always wanted to come out onstage with a stuffed parrot on his shoulder.

But we used to go to flea markets and things, and look for old 78 records that had silly song titles.

When we did Top of the Pops for the third time, we decided to do it as a television program here called Come Dancing, which is not as rude as it sounds.

Answers given with authority negate the search for truth.

I see my role in the Bonzos as being the straight man, in many ways.

But I mean, again, Zappa's far more musical than the Bonzos ever were.

I mean in recent years, I think you've only got to sell thirty or forty thousand to get a #1.

the world is not a pleasant place to be without someone to hold and be held by.

Allegory dwells in a transparent palace.

For the most part my friends can always be more entertaining than the tube ever can be.

I believe that saying a thing is to keep its virtues and take away its terror.

Eriugena and other Celtic teachers speak of Christ as our memory, as the one who leads us to our deepest identity, as the one who remembers the song of our beginnings….

I've never done anything for money. My first love is things of limited commercial appeal. I could be happy doing Shakespeare for the rest of my life.

I don't believe in happy families.

On the battlefield, (the U.S. war in Iraq) cannot be considered a success. It's a struggle. We're doing what we can to support them with equipment, assistance, training, and sharing any intelligence.

The practical joke is the psychiatry of baseball.

Surely no one would ever use such a weapon against a city." "There are no limits in war," Volger said, still staring out the window.