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Somebody will come up to me after a show and have me sign their arm, and the next time I see them my autograph has been permanently inscribed on their arm.

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I think that nerds, if you want to call them that, have only gotten more hip and assimilated into the culture.

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Left all my Beatle records out in the sun, got a coke bottle stuck on the end of my tongue.

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You fake something until you're good at 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'd like to be able to be more topical and timely and more of-the-moment and I think the way to do that is, instead of waiting until I have twelve songs to release all at once, just to release them as I come up with them.

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Take down those naked pictures of Ernest Borgnine.

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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 can bend paper clips into the shapes of small animals.

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I'll be mellow when I'm dead.

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

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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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I'm obviously not a rapper, and I don't have any claims to be one, really.

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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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That's a big part of my life - doing things that I'm not prepared to do. Doing things that I don't know how to do, and keep doing them until I get good at them. I always try to put myself out of my comfort zone and out of my depth, and hopefully somewhere along the line I'll catch up.

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

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I do original songs in the style of other artists, where I try to learn all their musical idiosyncrasies and try to do something that sounds like them and yet is a bit more sick and twisted.

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It was difficult to get into my friends' rock bands when I was a teenager. They somehow didn't see the need for an accordion player. That's when I realized that I had to find my own path in life.

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The window doesn't open, the fan is broke, and my face is turning blue. I haven't been in a crowd like this since I went to see the Who.

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