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No matter what I put out, somebody will be offended. I made a video on 10 reasons to smile, and it has dislikes. That should be an indication that there will be some who get offended no matter what you do. The best you can do as an entertainer or as someone who performs is to follow what you believe in.

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 parody myself every chance I get. I try to make fun of myself and let people know that I'm a human being, and these things that have happened to me are real. I'm not just some cartoon who exists and suddenly doesn't exist.

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

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.

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

Parodies came about because Mr. Ford was actually one of the better athletes of our presidents... but he continually had physical accidents... he was an easy target for me. The main idea was to get people laughing.

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.