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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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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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If you want to avoid heated arguments, never discuss religion, politics, or whether the toilet paper roll should go over or under.
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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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Midget wrestling on channel 3, it costs me 50 bucks a month.
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It’s hard to force creativity and humor.
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So then why get upset if somebody like me Tries to look at the world just a bit differently?
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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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Not only are they just great, nice guys; they’re some of the best musicians you’re likely to find.
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As a kid, I certainly never thought I would get to spend my life doing something fun.
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Beans, beans, the magic legumes – the more you ingest, the more you consume.
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Some people want to advertise their weirdness, and spread it out, that’s not me.
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By the time I’m in the studio recording my parody, 10,000 parodies of that song are on YouTube.
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I guess I lost a little bit of self-esteem that time that you made it with the whole hockey team.
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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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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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