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My own personal tastes don't really have an effect on whether song is a parody target or not. But having said that, I try to pick songs that I actually like because I realize that I have to live with these songs for a long time, from when I'm working on them in the studio to possibly playing them onstage for the rest of my life. So I try not to pick songs that I know would drive me crazy.

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As a wise man once said, “April Fools Day is for amateurs. You NEVER need an excuse to mess with people's heads.”

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I'm watching the charts every week and hoping something will pop into my head.

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In fact, when I come up with an idea for a parody I try to resist the urge to Google the idea to see if someone has done it already because the answer is almost always, "Yes, of course they have, they've thought of it!"

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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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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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In the '80s, I was putting out an album virtually every year, I think mostly based on fear - that if I didn't, people would soon forget about me.

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

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

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I'm a music fan, and I can listen to the radio, or music, without thinking, "How am I going to screw this up?" [Laughs] If I'm really actively trying to think of a parody, then I'll have my antenna out, and be a little more proactive about it.

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By the time I'm in the studio recording my parody, 10,000 parodies of that song are on YouTube.

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Like, I have had moments, which I think most people have, where you'll be watching TV, and it'll be interrupted by some tragic event, and you'll actually find yourself thinking, 'I don't want to hear about this train being derailed! What happened to 'The Flintstones'?'

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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.

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I'm still a geek on the inside, that's the important thing.

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I like the guitar-driven music of Nirvana at its peak. At that point, I thought there was a lot of really exciting music coming out.

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I guess I lost a little bit of self-esteem that time that you made it with the whole hockey team.

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If something is good enough, it can be out there and people will see it.

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I don't like to label myself. I know I'm very hard to pigeonhole.

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As a kid, I certainly never thought I would get to spend my life doing something fun.

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I'm an ugly girl, My face makes you hurl, Sad I have it, I should bag it. Acne everywhere, Unwanted facial hair. I'm a relation to Frankenstein's creation.

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