Moon Unit Zappa Quotes
"Every job I've ever gotten has been an accident. All the jobs I actually go after, I don't get."
- Moon Unit Zappa
(Related: Accident, Job, Jobs)
"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."
- Moon Unit Zappa
(Related: Dating, Growing up, Rules, Want, Waste, Water)
"I should just drive around this city and take photos of all the buildings I've been humiliated in."
- Moon Unit Zappa
"I peaked early. I was told I'd missed my boat."
- Moon Unit Zappa
"I spent most of my life locked in my bedroom, miserable about my raging acne."
- Moon Unit Zappa
(Related: Life)
"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
(Related: Funny, World)
"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
(Related: Song)
"I've got a new relationship and I'm trapped in this old life."
- Moon Unit Zappa
(Related: Life, Old)
"If there's anything more mortifying than being famous at 14, it's being washed up right after."
- Moon Unit Zappa
(Related: Being, Famous, Right)
"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
(Related: Old, Rules)
"My Dad was so open creatively that I was off in search of black turtleneck bathing suits with long sleeves."
- Moon Unit Zappa
(Related: Dad, Open)
"My mother did literally hitchhike barefoot to the country store."
- Moon Unit Zappa
(Related: Mother, Country)
"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."
- Moon Unit Zappa
(Related: Mother, Thought, First, Help, School, Teachers)
"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
(Related: Age, Authority, Rules, World)
"The idea of licking stamps seemed great fun for me."
- Moon Unit Zappa
(Related: Idea, Fun)
"I made enough money to buy a house. That's crazy, but fame proved ephemeral."
- Moon Unit Zappa
(Related: Money, Fame)
"Your own experience keeps taking you towards something. My book adds the hope that it's a better something."
- Moon Unit Zappa
(Related: Experience, Hope)
"I don't want to lose my name because that's how I know myself. There is a legacy here."
- Moon Unit Zappa
(Related: Name, Want)
"I grew up with too much freedom. You can't define yourself."
- Moon Unit Zappa
(Related: Freedom)
"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
(Related: Family, Mother, Friend, Night)
"I have a tree man coming to trim the jacaranda in my front garden."
- Moon Unit Zappa
(Related: Garden, Man)
"I like to think of myself as a New Yorker, which is pathetic."
- 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
(Related: Women, Father, Clothes)
"Not many people know what their parents sound like having sex. It was noisy."
- Moon Unit Zappa
(Related: Sex, People, Parents, Sound)