I can't think of anything worse than trying to schmooze someone with the idea that you're an actor.
I think ingenuity is part of our DNA. That plus curiosity, plus the willingness to commit.
Frank [Zappa] was not a big fan of having lyrics, but sometimes he had things to say that lent themselves to lyrics.
Frank [Zappa]'s music was never for the mass audience. His music contains specific kinds of information that you won't find elsewhere in rock and roll.
Musicians more than most people are in the moment. That's the dual nature of that job.
I never dreamed that my future would be my husband's past. But it's such a huge past in terms of the recorded content.
The problem with composers is that they are the most unrequired job in America.
Was there ever a name more full of purpose than Chicago's?. . . spoken as Chicagoans themselves speak it, with a bit of a spit to give heft to its slither, it is gloriously onomatopoetic.
Murphy's Law, that brash proletarian restatement of Godel's Theorem.
If those people in power never made any mistakes, we'd be done for as a democracy. But people keep making mistakes. History is a series of mistakes.
I have always been a grumbler. I am designed for the part - sagging face, weighty underlip, rumbling, resonant voice. Money couldn't buy a better grumbling outfit.