I'm an ugly girl, My face makes you hurl, Sad I have it, I should bag it. Acne everywhere, Unwanted facial hair. I'm a relation to Frankenstein's creation.
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.
Somebody will come up to me after a show and have me sign their arm, and the next time I see them my autograph has been permanently inscribed on their arm.
I don't really look at myself as the kind of person who craves attention, but I've never been to therapy so there's probably a lot of stuff about myself that I don't know.
One of my pet peeves is that sometimes the talents of my band get overlooked because, and it was the same problem that Frank Zappa had, with a lot of groups that use humor, people don't realize there's a lot of craft behind the comedy.
There aren't that many superstars around anymore.
As it turns out, there is a thing called the Internet, and stuff does go out there whether the suits like it or not.
I think that nerds, if you want to call them that, have only gotten more hip and assimilated into the culture.
My personal taste doesn't enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.
That's something the kids should know about. Reading is a gateway to witchcraft and lesbianism.
People never ask people doing serious music, 'Do you ever think about doing funny music?'
So that's why one of my rules of parody writing is that it's gotta be funny regardless of whether you know the source material. It has to work on its own merit.
I make charts of songs that are good candidates, good targets, so to speak. Then I try to come up with ideas for parodies. And 99% of those ideas are horrible.
When I go to my live shows it's often a multigenerational audience, a family bonding experience.
If something is good enough, it can be out there and people will see it.
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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I notice you're not wearing any... galloshes ;)
I'll bet every great thinker and leader we've got Could see all kinds of things other people could not! So then why get upset if somebody like me Tries to look at the world just a bit differently?
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.
You don't need to be defined by your job.
How can you get bored if the audience is cheering and laughing at something you're doing?
There are probably a few library fines I haven't paid yet, but I'm a pretty clean-cut guy overall.
I've done a movie and a TV series, and someday I'd like to do a successful movie and a successful TV series. That would be nice.
In the '80s, I was putting out an album virtually every year, I think mostly based on fear - that if I didn't, people would soon forget about me.
I'm obviously not a rapper, and I don't have any claims to be one, really.
Some people want to advertise their weirdness, and spread it out, that's not me.
A lot of rap songs don't usually have a lot of melody per se.
I've learned how to use my spam filter pretty effectively.
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.
My hobbies just sort of gradually became my vocation.
