I’m a music fan, and I can listen to the radio, or music, without thinking, “How am I going to screw this up?” [Laughs] If I’m really actively trying to think of a parody, then I’ll have my antenna out, and be a little more proactive about it.
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I have a long-standing history of respecting artists’ wishes.
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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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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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You got me stranded on the bungee tower of love.
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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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It was difficult to get into my friends’ rock bands when I was a teenager.
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Many years ago I found out something about hamburgers that really grossed me out. You may not know this, so I hope I don’t make you sick, but it turns out hamburgers are actually made out of dead cows.
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I’m very analytical, I’m very precise.
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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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I’m known for being an up, high-energy, and optimistic kind of guy.
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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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Left all my Beatle records out in the sun, got a coke bottle stuck on the end of my tongue.
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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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I don’t want to hear about this train being derailed! What happened to ‘The Flintstones’?’
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So I’m one of the few celebrities that got to do a repeat performance on ‘The Simpsons,’ which I’m very flattered by.
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