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.

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.

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

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.

If I'd spoken, even just one word, I would have never been able to hold back what I feel for you. You would have run.

Making the complicated simple is true creativity.

I want the world to be filled with white fluffy duckies

The world was not wheeling anymore. It was just very clear and bright and inclined to blur at the edges.

In this world,” Franny once observed, “just as you’re trying to think of yourself as memorable, there is always someone who forgets that that they have met you.

As I began researching butterflies, however, the monarch stood out among all of them. It's the only butterfly - the only insect - that migrates like a bird or a whale!

The events between 1968 and 1980 were the kind of cornerstone for everything I've been able to do, they gave me the springboard.

Fire is catching! And if we burn, you burn with us!

The agency that is so strict on the way Americans keep their books cannot even pass a financial audit.

Be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.