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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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Ever since the day you left me, I've been so miserable, my dear. I feel almost as bad as I did when you were still here.

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I like to think that I've gotten better at what I do. I spend more time and pay more attention to detail album after album. But pretty much it's stayed the same.

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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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I'm always a little leery about doing shows where I'm not the headliner because when I first started playing in 1982 I opened for Missing Persons and got pelted for 45 minutes. After that, I made the decision to headline no matter what, even if I was playing to seven people. I wanted people to be there to see me.

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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 do a lot of different things, sometimes at the same time, and it's very difficult to figure out where I fit.

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

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Not any specific one, but I was a huge fan of Frank Jacobs, I guess he wrote the plurality of the song parodies for MAD, Sam Hart, a few others, but that was also where I was first exposed to the art form of song parodies.

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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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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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A lot of rap songs don't usually have a lot of melody per se.

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I'll bet every great thinker and leader we've got Could see all kinds of things other people could not! So then why get upset if somebody like me Tries to look at the world just a bit differently?

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I'm very analytical, I'm very precise.

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Probably 90 percent of my albums have polka medleys.

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My personal taste doesn't enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.

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

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A lot of my cartoon voices are basically just variations on my natural voice.

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