Sometimes People Try To Read Into My

'the Simpsons' Is About Alienation And The Ambivalence Of Living With A Family Who You Love But Who Drive You Completely Crazy.

My Standard Comment Is, If You Don't Want Your Kids To Be Like Bart Simpson, Don't Act Like Homer Simpson.

I Think When 'the Simpsons' First Came On, There Was An Uproar. People Got Used To It. They Realized The Show's Really Funny, It's Got A Heart, So I Think It's Pretty Safe.

But Marge, What If We Chose The Wrong Religion? Each Week We Just Make God Madder And Madder.

The Amazing Thing About Freak Out! Was That There Was Nothing Quite Like It In Rock 'n Roll At The Time. It Was Really Simultaneously Crude And Ugly, And Incredibly Sophisticated. The Beatles Were Funny, But There Was Nothing With The Kind Of Sneer That You Could Feel In The Music Of Frank Zappa.