I do original songs in the style of other artists, where I try to learn all their musical idiosyncrasies and try to do something that sounds like them and yet is a bit more sick and twisted.
AL YANKOVICI 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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Not only are they just great, nice guys; they’re some of the best musicians you’re likely to find.
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I tend to enunciate pretty well. It’s always seemed that my voice is one of those voices that people can recognize pretty easily – which has been a bit of a drawback for some characters.
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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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If something is good enough, it can be out there and people will see it.
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I do a lot of different things, sometimes at the same time, and it’s very difficult to figure out where I fit.
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Now with internet culture it seems like everyone is doing music parodies. And they’re not all good!
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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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It’s hard to force creativity and humor.
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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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That’s a big part of my life – doing things that I’m not prepared to do.
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You fake something until you’re good at it.
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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 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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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 enough people that do unfunny music. I’ll leave the serious stuff to Paris Hilton and Kevin Federline.
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