In a genre where most of the artists are one-hit wonders, I've been able to hang around longer than most "serious" acts. I pride myself in being a very talented leech.

You got me stranded on the bungee tower of love.

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.

I've learned how to use my spam filter pretty effectively.

My own personal tastes don't really have an effect on whether song is a parody target or not. But having said that, I try to pick songs that I actually like because I realize that I have to live with these songs for a long time, from when I'm working on them in the studio to possibly playing them onstage for the rest of my life. So I try not to pick songs that I know would drive me crazy.

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.

There are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for parody, yet I can't think of a clever enough idea.