Moon Unit Zappa Quotes

The idea of licking stamps seemed great fun for me.

My mother tells this story that when I first went to school, I thought I was going to help the teachers. I didn't realise I was going to get educated.

Not many people know what their parents sound like having sex. It was noisy.

Every job I've ever gotten has been an accident. All the jobs I actually go after, I don't get.

I've got a new relationship and I'm trapped in this old life.

My Dad was so open creatively that I was off in search of black turtleneck bathing suits with long sleeves.

I don't want to lose my name because that's how I know myself. There is a legacy here.

We had two rules growing up in my house: If you're going to take a shower, do it with whomever you're dating so you don't waste water; and if you buy one for yourself, buy six, because everybody's going to want one.

I like to think of myself as a New Yorker, which is pathetic.

I didn't have any concept of age or authority. I remember realising, Oh, the world has rules and we don't.

Your own experience keeps taking you towards something. My book adds the hope that it's a better something.

If there's anything more mortifying than being famous at 14, it's being washed up right after.

How strange, when your father's wearing women's clothes and platform shoes, that a pair of loafers looks incredible.

I should just drive around this city and take photos of all the buildings I've been humiliated in.

My mother did literally hitchhike barefoot to the country store.

Everyone has flaws. It's a matter of finding the ones you can live with.

I would think: Stay close to the implants! They must know something because they keep getting asked backstage!

I spent most of my life locked in my bedroom, miserable about my raging acne.

I grew up with too much freedom. You can't define yourself.