I like to think that I've gotten better at what I do. I spend more time and pay more attention to detail album after album. But pretty much it's stayed the same.

Well I've made no secret of my life long love of MAD Magazine, it's probably my first and greatest influence in terms of my comic sensibilities. I've known John [Ficarra] for many years, and we've been friends. About four or five months ago, at a dinner in New York, John made the very nice offer of my being guest editor for an issue of MAD and I thought about it for about half a nanosecond and decided that was a pretty good idea.

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

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

You fake something until you're good at it.

If you want to avoid heated arguments, never discuss religion, politics, or whether the toilet paper roll should go over or under.

It's hard to really articulate what the parameters are that make one song parody-able and another song not, but if I can come up with a good enough idea for it, I go for it, and if not, then I have to move on.