I was a huge fan of ‘Mad’ magazine when I was 11, 12, 13 years old. I’d scour used bookstores trying to find back issues, and I’d wait at the newsstand for a new issue...

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

I can’t get too offended when somebody parodies me.

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.

I’m still a geek on the inside, that’s the important thing.

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...

I know now that everything I write, I’m going to put out, and I’ll have to live with it for the rest of my life.

I mean, I don’t write for kids.

I’ll bet every great thinker and leader we’ve gotCould see all kinds of things other people could not!So then why get upset if somebody like meTries to look at the world just a bit differently?

When I go to my live shows it’s often a multigenerational audience, a family bonding experience.

There are probably a few library fines I haven’t paid yet, but I’m a pretty clean-cut guy overall.

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,...