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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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One of my pet peeves is that sometimes the talents of my band get overlooked because, and it was the same problem that Frank Zappa had, with a lot of groups that use humor, people don't realize there's a lot of craft behind the comedy.

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I'm just a no-good, scum sucking, nose picking, boot licking, sniveling, groveling, worthless hunk of slime.

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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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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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I know now that everything I write, I'm going to put out, and I'll have to live with it for the rest of my life.

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

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In the '80s, I was the only game in town, I was the only one getting that kind of exposure in any rotation on MTV. Now with internet culture it seems like everyone is doing music parodies. And they're not all good!

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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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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 write and write and write, and then I edit it down to the parts that I think are amusing, or that help the storyline, or I'll write a notebook full of ideas of anecdotes or story points, and then I'll try and arrange them in a way that they would tell a semi-cohesive story.

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As much as people are griping about the Internet taking sales away from artists, it's been a huge promotional tool for me.

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The irony is of course that my career has lasted a whole lot longer than some of the people I've parodied over the years.

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

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Got a brand new semi-automatic weapon with a laser sight. Oh, I'm praying that somebody tries to break in here tonight.

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I knew we were having problems when you put those piranhas in my bathtub again.

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I think my chances of ever making it into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame are about as good as Milli Vanilli’s.

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Pop culture's gotten much more disposable.

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

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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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