One of the hardest things I've had to deal with in my career is keeping my material topical even though I only release albums every three or four years.

When I was a kid, I thought I was going to be an architect, because when I was 12 years old I had a guidance counselor that convinced me that that was the best career choice for me.

The irony is of course that my career has lasted a whole lot longer than some of the people I've parodied over the years.

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.

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.

I think that nerds, if you want to call them that, have only gotten more hip and assimilated into the culture.