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You still have Top 40 radio now, but it's 40 different stations. There aren't many hits that everybody knows, and there aren't many real superstars.

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I mean, I hate to gloat, but I'm extremely satisfied with my position in life and the way things have worked out for me.

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Sometimes I get, "Have you ever thought about doing real music?" I like to think the music I do is real, it just happens to be funny.

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My hobbies just sort of gradually became my vocation.

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When I go to my live shows it's often a multigenerational audience, a family bonding experience.

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A lot of my cartoon voices are basically just variations on my natural voice.

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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.

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It's hard to say, I picked one of my favorite articles for the MAD vault. Which is one of the features of the Magazine so they don't have to actually pay artists or writers to come up with new stuff.

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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. 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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A lot of rap songs don't usually have a lot of melody per se.

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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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Not any specific one, but I was a huge fan of Frank Jacobs, I guess he wrote the plurality of the song parodies for MAD, Sam Hart, a few others, but that was also where I was first exposed to the art form of song parodies.

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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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Buy our album, were Nirvana, a garage band from Seattle. Well, it sure beats raising cattle.

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I don't think there are any new media I'd like to cover.

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I'll be mellow when I'm dead.

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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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My velvet Elvis means the world to me. Although he may not be worth much dough, he means more to me than some old Rembrandt or Van Gogh.

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I try not to go the obvious route all the time, but sometimes the most obvious is actually the best.

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Boys like Peter are afraid of alot of things, like nuclear annihilation and flunking algebra, but they're not afraid of wolves.

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