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"That was his mother. When she wasn't crying over the breakfast cereal, she was laughing about killing herself."

"The third lesson and tip actually comes from two of my favorite political philosophers: Mao Tse-tung and Mother Theresa - not often coupled with each other, but the two people I turn to most to basically deliver a simple point which is 'you're going to make choices; you're going to challenge; you're going to say why not; you're going to figure out how to do things that have never been done before."

"I had to get in touch with the source, I had to go back into my abandonment issues with my mother, I had to go into issues with my father I hadn't even looked at before."
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"I would have told him that I appreciated his friendship through the years and that I had learned a lot from him. I really loved Frank like you do a brother."

"I've done every tour with them since then and will always be with them as long as they're together."

"Hendrix was big in England. We all became good friends and I am still in touch with Noel Redding."

"I don't know how Frank presented the old Mothers, since I never read the book. There might be some opinions on what he said, but I - or anyone else - could not make any corrections to anything Frank did."

"I've been writing Indian music for a while. Indian music is about Mother Earth, and mine is no exception."

"I haven't seen or spoken to Ray Collins in at least 10 years so I don't even know if he's alive. I hope so."

"I know I didn't like that dress 'cause it didn't fit but I thought it was a great picture. We weren't the first band to do a picture in drag; The Rolling Stones were. If it was good enough for them then it had to be good enough for us."

"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."

"First of all; Frank was the BOSS. We didn't question any of his motives or decisions at the time."
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