“I really don't have a theme when I start a sculpture. The rock guides ...” — Jimmy Carl Black Quote

“I really don't have a theme when I start a sculpture. The rock guides me to the final sculpture. I think that is true for many creative sculpture artists.”

“We are not a Zappa cover band. We only play Frank's songs that were recorded by the Mothers of Invention and I think a lot of those songs were complex.”

“I think a lot of the Mothers stuff that we recorded was written while we were on the road.”

“Lately I've been a workaholic. I'm in the studio all the time and I've helped to produce a couple of artists.”

“There's this thing called compulsory licensing law that allows artists through the record companies to take your music at will without your permission.”

“I'm attracted to artists like Frida Kahlo, because her work was her life, her questions, her outrage, her suffering, her pain. Everything is in her work.”