I enjoy all kinds of music. But it is kind of strange when I do parodies, instead of setting up drums and guitar amps.
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Take down those naked pictures of Ernest Borgnine.
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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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There’s a lot of different ways that a song would be a challenge to parody.
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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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My brothers and sisters hated me because I was an only child.
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Probably 90 percent of my albums have polka medleys.
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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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I try to pick songs that I actually like because I realize that I have to live with these songs for a long time, from when I’m working on them in the studio to possibly playing them onstage for the rest of my life.
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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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I think I’m equally as abusive as the editors normally are for the “Letters and Tomatoes” column, which is the fan mail part of MAD Magazine and an ongoing feature.
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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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People say releasing an album is like giving birth, but it’s more like having a gallbladder operation.
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I’d rather clean all the bathrooms in Grand Central Station with my tongue than spend one more minute with you.
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I have a long-standing history of respecting artists’ wishes.
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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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