It doesn't take a military genius to see we'll all be crispy critters after World War III.

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.

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

As much as people are griping about the Internet taking sales away from artists, it's been a huge promotional tool for me.

I don't want to pooh-pooh modern pop. I appreciate that as well, but my personal favorite kind of music is guitar-based rock. I like grunge and garage bands and alternative music, but that's more my personal taste.

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.

Some people want to advertise their weirdness, and spread it out, that's not me.