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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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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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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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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 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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Boys like Peter are afraid of alot of things, like nuclear annihilation and flunking algebra, but they're not afraid of wolves.

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One of the hardest things I've had to deal with in my career is keeping my material topical even though I only release albums every three or four years.

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I was abducted by some aliens from space who kind a looked like Jamie Farr.

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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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If you want to avoid heated arguments, never discuss religion, politics, or whether the toilet paper roll should go over or under.

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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'm very analytical, I'm very precise. I mean, I don't write for kids.

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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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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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I can't get too offended when somebody parodies 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 slammed my face down on the barbecue grill, now my scars are all healing, but my heart never will.

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I've done a movie and a TV series, and someday I'd like to do a successful movie and a successful TV series. That would be nice.

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

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You fake something until you're good at it.

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