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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You got me stranded on the bungee tower of love.
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Right now I’m listening to a lot of Top 40 music, because THAT’S MY JOB.
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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 know now that everything I write, I’m going to put out, and I’ll have to live with it for the rest of my life.
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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 own personal tastes don’t really have an effect on whether song is a parody target or not. But having said that,
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I’m very analytical, I’m very precise.
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A lot of my cartoon voices are basically just variations on my natural voice.
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One of the hardest things I’ve had to deal with in my career is keeping my material topical even though I only release albums every three or four years.
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I’d like to be able to be more topical and timely and more of-the-moment and I think the way to do that is, instead of waiting until I have twelve songs to release all at once, just to release them as I come up with them.
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Like, I have had moments, which I think most people have, where you’ll be watching TV, and it’ll be interrupted by some tragic event, and you’ll actually find yourself thinking,
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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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Some people want to advertise their weirdness, and spread it out, that’s not me.
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People that were a little nerdy in high school would look up to me and know it gets better.
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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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