Moon Unit Zappa Speaks

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

Gag me with a spoon!
Moon Unit Zappa

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

I didn't have any concept of age or authority. I remember realising, Oh, the world has rules and we don't.
Moon Unit Zappa

I don't want to lose my name because that's how I know myself. There is a legacy here.
Moon Unit Zappa

I grew up with too much freedom. You can't define yourself.
Moon Unit Zappa

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.
Moon Unit Zappa

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

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

I made enough money to buy a house. That's crazy, but fame proved ephemeral.
Moon Unit Zappa

I peaked early. I was told I'd missed my boat.
Moon Unit Zappa

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

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

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

I'm totally convinced I can write the perfect pop song.
Moon Unit Zappa

I've got a new relationship and I'm trapped in this old life.
Moon Unit Zappa

If there's anything more mortifying than being famous at 14, it's being washed up right after.
Moon Unit Zappa

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

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