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.

So I’m one of the few celebrities that got to do a repeat performance on ‘The Simpsons,’ which I’m very flattered by.

It’s hard to force creativity and humor.

Probably 90 percent of my albums have polka medleys.

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

I’m very analytical, I’m very precise.

People never ask people doing serious music, ‘Do you ever think about doing funny music?’

As it turns out, there is a thing called the Internet, and stuff does go out there whether the suits like it or not.

Whenever I do a parody it’s not meant to make you hate anybody’s music really.

If I could find the right kind of property, get tied in with the right movie, I’d love to be involved, but I just find it hard to be motivated to do another screenplay right...

You fake something until you’re good at it.

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.