A lot of artists have really been supportive over the years.
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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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A lot of artists have really been supportive over the years.
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I’ll be mellow when I’m dead.
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And then I’ll try and arrange them in a way that they would tell a semi-cohesive story.
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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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As a wise man once said, “April Fools Day is for amateurs. You NEVER need an excuse to mess with people’s heads.”
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I’m very analytical, I’m very precise.
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Beans, beans, the magic legumes – the more you ingest, the more you consume.
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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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About four or five months ago, at a dinner in New York, John made the very nice offer of my being guest editor for an issue of MAD and I thought about it for about half a nanosecond and decided that was a pretty good idea.
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A lot of my cartoon voices are basically just variations on my natural voice.
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As my father used to tell me, the only true sign of success in life is being able to do for a living that which makes you happy.
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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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I’m free to do what I please, I’m probably not going to do albums. Just because I think releasing tracks as singles is a better way for me to stay topical.
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So that was a joke that I continue up to this very day.
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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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