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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.

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.

My personal taste doesn't enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.

Using music to promote hate seems to be the bastardisation of music to me.

I'd like to say that parody is a celebration of a person's specific characteristics, as opposed to mockery.

I think a lot of the time you just parody yourself.

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.

By the very nature of satire or parody, you have to love and respect your target and respect it enough to understand every aspect of it, so you can more effectively make fun of it.

I never like to do parodies. I never do. It's just not my style of comedy.

I think to simply make fun of something isn't particularly interesting. I try to not just do a parody of something or belittle something or disparage something.