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That's something the kids should know about. Reading is a gateway to witchcraft and lesbianism.

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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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So I'm one of the few celebrities that got to do a repeat performance on 'The Simpsons,' which I'm very flattered by.

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

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I start with a comprehensive list of all the recent songs that have been big hits - and then I go down that list and see if I can come up with funny ideas for them. I can always come up with ideas, but not necessarily good ones!

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Nows the time to go for all the gusto you can grab. You'll have plenty of time to be low-key when you're laid out on the slab.

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You still have Top 40 radio now, but it's 40 different stations. There aren't many hits that everybody knows, and there aren't many real superstars.

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It becomes more important to me as time goes on to make every album the best thing I've ever done, so it's a lot of self-imposed pressure that also kind of slows me down a bit.

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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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I cut my teeth playing rock songs on the accordion when I was a teenager and my friends always thought that was extremely amusing. I think that was the genesis of my polka medleys, because every rock song I played on the accordion just sounded like a polka and my friends thought it was funny. So that was a joke that I continue up to this very day.

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My hobbies just sort of gradually became my vocation.

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What kind of morons do you have working at newspapers in Austin that would base an entire review of an artist's performance on whether or not they had a good seat?

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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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When I swore that you're getting more and more beautiful everyday. Well, I was only kidding, honey.

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Buy our album, were Nirvana, a garage band from Seattle. Well, it sure beats raising cattle.

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

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I have very mixed feelings about it. On one hand, I’m concerned that the rampant downloading of my copyright-protected material over the Internet is severely eating into my album sales and having a decidedly adverse effect on my career. On the other hand, I can get all the Metallica songs I want for FREE! WOW!

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You can play some schlock like New Kids On the Block.

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I'm free to do what I please, I'm probably not going to do albums. Just because I think releasing tracks as singles is a better way for me to stay topical.

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