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Interviewer: Is it possible to say where you get your musical influences from? Frank Zappa: Sometimes you get it from chicken. Sometimes from coffee. "To me, a cigarette is food," said Zappa in his autobiography, The Real Frank Zappa Book. "I live my life smoking these things, and drinking the �black water� in this cup here." Q: Do you have a drug problem? A: Yes, with coffee. Q: With coffee??? A: I'm an absolutely sober person. I don't consume alcohol. I don't smoke weed. But I drink gallons of coffee. "The other great noise was -- there are two people in this group who play didgeridus," Zappa recalled in an interview with Bob Menn in Best of Guitar Player. "One of them is the woman from Australia who is also the oboe player. And one afternoon, I imagined this awful sound that could be created if one were to take a didgeridu and play it into a partially filled coffee pot. And I asked her whether she would do it. She said yes, and let me say, it is truly nauseating. I was laughing so much I had to leave the room."