After ten or twelve years you can only play something so long and then you start to parody it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I'd play the same character for ten years if the words and the moments that I'm playing are authentic.
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.
Even when you write it, someone's got to play it. So if you can play it and bypass all the rest of the things, you're still doing as great as someone that has spent forty years trying to find out how to do that. I'm really pro-human beings, pro-expression of everything.
I think a lot of the time you just parody yourself.
My personal taste doesn't enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.
Whenever I do a parody it's not meant to make you hate anybody's music really.
I took the part in 'Mr. Holland's Opus' because no one had ever asked me to play 'a life' before. I get to age through 30 years. The idea really challenged me.
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, and if not, then I have to move on.
You can't play forever.
Self-parody is the first portent of age.