My velvet Elvis means the world to me. Although he may not be worth much dough, he means more to me than some old Rembrandt or Van Gogh.
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I don’t think there are any new media I’d like to cover.
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My velvet Elvis means the world to me. Although he may not be worth much dough, he means more to me than some old Rembrandt or Van Gogh.
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I’m stranded all alone in the gas station of love, and I have to use the self service pump.
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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.
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Doing things that I don’t know how to do, and keep doing them until I get good at them.
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What kind of morons do you have working at newspapers in Austin that would base an entire review of an artist’s performance on whether or not they had a good seat?
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I start with a comprehensive list of all the recent songs that have been big hits – and then I go down that list and see if I can come up with funny ideas for them. I can always come up with ideas, but not necessarily good ones!
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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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In the ’80s, I was putting out an album virtually every year, I think mostly based on fear – that if I didn’t, people would soon forget about me.
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It was difficult to get into my friends’ rock bands when I was a teenager.
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I have very mixed feelings about it. On one hand, I’m concerned that the rampant downloading of my copyright-protected material over the Internet is severely eating into my album sales and having a decidedly adverse effect on my career.
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So I try not to pick songs that I know would drive me crazy.
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I can’t get too offended when somebody parodies me.
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In fact, when I come up with an idea for a parody I try to resist the urge to Google the idea to see if someone has done it already because the answer is almost always, “Yes, of course they have, they’ve thought of it!”
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Velvet Elvis never puts on weight.
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I’ve learned how to use my spam filter pretty effectively.
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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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