I’m always a little leery about doing shows where I’m not the headliner because when I first started playing in 1982 I opened for Missing Persons and got pelted for 45 minutes.
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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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I’m always a little leery about doing shows where I’m not the headliner because when I first started playing in 1982 I opened for Missing Persons and got pelted for 45 minutes.
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You fake something until you’re good at it.
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I’m obviously not a rapper, and I don’t have any claims to be one, really.
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I don’t watch a lot of other people’s parodies because I don’t want to be unduly influenced.
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I’ve learned how to use my spam filter pretty effectively.
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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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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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I like the guitar-driven music of Nirvana at its peak. At that point, I thought there was a lot of really exciting music coming out.
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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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Maybe I’ll make a huge color tapestry from my belly button lint.
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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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That’s something the kids should know about. Reading is a gateway to witchcraft and lesbianism.
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I am not making this up. Needless to say, as soon as I discovered that, I gave up meat entirely.
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I’ll bet every great thinker and leader we’ve got Could see all kinds of things other people could not!
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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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I did have a child, and I was reading a lot of picture books to her, but at the same time writing a children’s book was something that I’d been wanting to do for many years, pretty much since the start of my career.
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