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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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People that were a little nerdy in high school would look up to me and know it gets better.

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I don't want to pooh-pooh modern pop. I appreciate that as well, but my personal favorite kind of music is guitar-based rock. I like grunge and garage bands and alternative music, but that's more my personal taste.

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

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People say releasing an album is like giving birth, but it’s more like having a gallbladder operation.

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I can bend paper clips into the shapes of small animals.

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

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As it turns out, there is a thing called the Internet, and stuff does go out there whether the suits like it or not.

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How can you get bored if the audience is cheering and laughing at something you're doing?

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I was a huge fan of 'Mad' magazine when I was 11, 12, 13 years old. I'd scour used bookstores trying to find back issues, and I'd wait at the newsstand for a new issue to come out. My life revolved around it.

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He died a long painful death. However, you'll be happy to hear that just a few years later he was reincarnated as Shirley MacLaine.

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So that's why one of my rules of parody writing is that it's gotta be funny regardless of whether you know the source material. It has to work on its own merit.

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It doesn't take a military genius to see we'll all be crispy critters after World War III.

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There's enough people that do unfunny music. I'll leave the serious stuff to Paris Hilton and Kevin Federline.

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Midget wrestling on channel 3, it costs me 50 bucks a month.

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Pop culture's gotten much more disposable.

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Some people want to advertise their weirdness, and spread it out, that's not me.

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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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Kind of wish I was dead. Maybe, I'll blow my brains out, mama, or maybe I'll go bowling.

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Well I've made no secret of my life long love of MAD Magazine, it's probably my first and greatest influence in terms of my comic sensibilities. I've known John [Ficarra] for many years, and we've been friends. About four or five months ago, at a dinner in New York, John made the very nice offer of my being guest editor for an issue of MAD and I thought about it for about half a nanosecond and decided that was a pretty good idea.

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