There’s a lot of different ways that a song would be a challenge to parody.
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A lot of my cartoon voices are basically just variations on my natural voice.
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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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Maybe I’ll make a huge color tapestry from my belly button lint.
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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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My brothers and sisters hated me because I was an only child.
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The music has always been my bread and butter, and I’ve focused more of my attention on that.
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Then I try to come up with ideas for parodies. And 99% of those ideas are horrible.
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I do a lot of different things, sometimes at the same time, and it’s very difficult to figure out where I fit.
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Not any specific one, but I was a huge fan of Frank Jacobs, I guess he wrote the plurality of the song parodies for MAD, Sam Hart, a few others, but that was also where I was first exposed to the art form of song parodies.
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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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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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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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I don’t really look at myself as the kind of person who craves attention, but I’ve never been to therapy so there’s probably a lot of stuff about myself that I don’t know.
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I’m still a geek on the inside, that’s the important thing.
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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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