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When I started out, I didn't feel like I was really accepted in the music or comedy communities, and I was somewhere on the edge, but now I feel like I'm accepted in both, which is extremely gratifying.

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You make me wanna staple bagels to my face, then remove them with a pitchfork.

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I don't think there are any new media I'd like to cover.

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If you want to avoid heated arguments, never discuss religion, politics, or whether the toilet paper roll should go over or under.

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Every night for dinner we had a big chunk of dirt.

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I do original songs in the style of other artists, where I try to learn all their musical idiosyncrasies and try to do something that sounds like them and yet is a bit more sick and twisted.

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I don't really look at myself as the kind of person who craves attention, but I've never been to therapy so there's probably a lot of stuff about myself that I don't know.

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I was able to come up with a couple articles for the magazine, I was able to solicit help from a bunch of my friends to contribute pieces: Patton Oswalt, Seth Green, Emo Phillips, Chris Hardwick, John Hodgman, and more. It's very much a "Weird Al" themed issue, so I'd like to think that there's a lot of "Weird Al" flavor throughout but I think it'd be generous really to call me an editor.

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There aren't that many superstars around anymore.

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In a genre where most of the artists are one-hit wonders, I've been able to hang around longer than most "serious" acts. I pride myself in being a very talented leech.

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Beans, beans, the magic legumes - the more you ingest, the more you consume.

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I can't get too offended when somebody parodies me.

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My brothers and sisters hated me because I was an only child.

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One of the hardest things I've had to deal with in my career is keeping my material topical even though I only release albums every three or four years.

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I did have a child, and I was reading a lot of picture books to her, but at the same time writing a children's book was something that I'd been wanting to do for many years, pretty much since the start of my career.

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As my father used to tell me, the only true sign of success in life is being able to do for a living that which makes you happy.

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There's a lot of different ways that a song would be a challenge to parody. There are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for parody, yet I can't think of a clever enough idea. Some songs are too repetitive for me to be able to fashion a humorous set of lyrics around. Some songs flat-out just don't work creatively for me.

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It's hard to force creativity and humor.

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I enjoy all kinds of music. But it is kind of strange when I do parodies, instead of setting up drums and guitar amps.

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I'd like to be able to be more topical and timely and more of-the-moment and I think the way to do that is, instead of waiting until I have twelve songs to release all at once, just to release them as I come up with them.

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