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" So that's why one of my rules of parody writing is that it's gotta be funny regardless of whether you know the source material. It has to work on its own merit. "

Al Yankovic

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

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" You fake something until you're good at it. "

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

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" I did have a child, and I was reading a lot of picture books to her, but at the same time writing a children's book was something that I'd been wanting to do for many years, pretty much since the start of my career. "

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

" I write and write and write, and then I edit it down to the parts that I think are amusing, or that help the storyline, or I'll write a notebook full of ideas of anecdotes or story points, and then I'll try and arrange them in a way that they would tell a semi-cohesive story. "