Whereas if I wrote a movie script, chances are better than even that I’d just be another guy in L.A. with a movie script in his drawer.
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I don’t like to label myself. I know I’m very hard to pigeonhole.
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Whereas if I wrote a movie script, chances are better than even that I’d just be another guy in L.A. with a movie script in his drawer.
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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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Maybe I’ll make a huge color tapestry from my belly button lint.
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About four or five months ago, at a dinner in New York, John made the very nice offer of my being guest editor for an issue of MAD and I thought about it for about half a nanosecond and decided that was a pretty good idea.
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There’s a lot of different ways that a song would be a challenge to parody.
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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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So I’m one of the few celebrities that got to do a repeat performance on ‘The Simpsons,’ which I’m very flattered by.
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Probably 90 percent of my albums have polka medleys.
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A lot of rap songs don’t usually have a lot of melody per se.
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A lot of artists have really been supportive over the years.
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As my father used to tell me, the only true sign of success in life is being able to do for a living that which makes you happy.
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It’s hard to force creativity and humor.
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I can’t get too offended when somebody parodies me.
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It becomes more important to me as time goes on to make every album the best thing I’ve ever done, so it’s a lot of self-imposed pressure that also kind of slows me down a bit.
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I’ve always known that if I recorded an album, it would come out, and people would enjoy it!
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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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