Moon Unit Zappa

“I think I have a dark view of the world. I have to make everything funny, otherwise it all seems so sad.”

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

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

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

“I have a tree man coming to trim the jacaranda in my front garden.”

“I made enough money to buy a house. That's crazy, but fame proved ephemeral.”

“Gag me with a spoon!”

“I had a friend whose family had dinner together. The mother would tuck you in at night and make breakfast in the morning. They even had a spare bike for a friend. It just seemed so amazing to 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.”

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

“I had a friend whose family had dinner together every day. The mother would tuck you in at night and make breakfast in the morning. It just seemed so amazing to me.”

“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.”

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

“My mother did literally hitchhike barefoot to the country store.”

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

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

“The idea of licking stamps seemed great fun for me.”

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

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