- Frank Beard: Clapton only snorted heroin, you know, which is like, so fucking... not cost-efficient!
- [laughs]
- Frank Beard: You have to do like, five times as much to get the same buzz! But he was making more money...
- [laughs]
- Frank Beard: But it's not cost-efficient.
- Himself, owner of Robin Hood Studios: ZZ Top plays the blues, but they don't sing the blues. They turn the blues into party music.
- Tim Newman: [on the comic, magic persona he devised for the band in their early MTV videos] Their mission was to help young people who were having a real crappy life.