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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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My hobbies just sort of gradually became my vocation.

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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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That's something the kids should know about. Reading is a gateway to witchcraft and lesbianism.

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I've always enjoyed animation and voiceover work. That's something that I've been proactive about.

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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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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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I'll be mellow when I'm dead.

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I'm free to do what I please, I'm probably not going to do albums. Just because I think releasing tracks as singles is a better way for me to stay topical.

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I'm watching the charts every week and hoping something will pop into my head.

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It fit pretty nicely into my schedule because we'd pretty much finished the bulk of promotion for Mandatory Fun and were just getting geared up for the World Tour so this was a nice time for me to be working on it.

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I've learned how to use my spam filter pretty effectively.

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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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How can you get bored if the audience is cheering and laughing at something you're doing?

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When I swore that you're getting more and more beautiful everyday. Well, I was only kidding, honey.

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

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I can bend paper clips into the shapes of small animals.

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I love the way they run in fright when I turn on the kitchen light. And when I squish them on the ground, they make a pleasant crunchy sound.

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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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