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As it turns out, there is a thing called the Internet, and stuff does go out there whether the suits like it or not.

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I mean, I hate to gloat, but I'm extremely satisfied with my position in life and the way things have worked out for me.

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Sometimes I get, "Have you ever thought about doing real music?" I like to think the music I do is real, it just happens to be funny.

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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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My brothers and sisters hated me because I was an only child.

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I don't like to label myself. I know I'm very hard to pigeonhole.

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It doesn't take a military genius to see we'll all be crispy critters after World War III.

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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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He died a long painful death. However, you'll be happy to hear that just a few years later he was reincarnated as Shirley MacLaine.

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People never ask people doing serious music, 'Do you ever think about doing funny music?'

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Like, I have had moments, which I think most people have, where you'll be watching TV, and it'll be interrupted by some tragic event, and you'll actually find yourself thinking, 'I don't want to hear about this train being derailed! What happened to 'The Flintstones'?'

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Right now I'm listening to a lot of Top 40 music, because THAT'S MY JOB.

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When I go to my live shows it's often a multigenerational audience, a family bonding experience.

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I don't want to pooh-pooh modern pop. I appreciate that as well, but my personal favorite kind of music is guitar-based rock. I like grunge and garage bands and alternative music, but that's more my personal taste.

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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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I make charts of songs that are good candidates, good targets, so to speak. Then I try to come up with ideas for parodies. And 99% of those ideas are horrible.

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There are probably a few library fines I haven't paid yet, but I'm a pretty clean-cut guy overall.

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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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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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I have a long-standing history of respecting artists' wishes.

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