The irony is of course that my career has lasted a whole lot longer than some of the people I've parodied over the years.

Left all my Beatle records out in the sun, got a coke bottle stuck on the end of my tongue.

I cut my teeth playing rock songs on the accordion when I was a teenager and my friends always thought that was extremely amusing. I 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. So that was a joke that I continue up to this very day.

In the '80s, I was the only game in town, I was the only one getting that kind of exposure in any rotation on MTV. Now with internet culture it seems like everyone is doing music parodies. And they're not all good!

I enjoy all kinds of music. But it is kind of strange when I do parodies, instead of setting up drums and guitar amps.

You slammed my face down on the barbecue grill, now my scars are all healing, but my heart never will.

I don't watch a lot of other people's parodies because I don't want to be unduly influenced.