Moon Zappa Quotes

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

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.

The idea of licking stamps seemed great fun for me.

Not many people know what their parents sound like having s*x. It was noisy.

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.

My mother did literally hitchhike barefoot to the country store.

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

It occurred to me, when I was old enough to make rules of my own, that they should be fair and simple.

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

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

I’m totally convinced I can write the perfect pop song.

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

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

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

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

I peaked early. I was told I’d missed my boat.

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

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

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

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.