I was lucid enough to write, but I was getting to the point where all alcoholic and drug-addicted writers get, where I was starting to parody myself".
Some children who spend a lot of time alongside adults start to parody them, giving the impression that they've grown up too fast, and missed a few key steps along the way.
Just when the Martha Stewart jokes and parodies had started to fade, the anti-Martha cookbook has landed.
But, just as his fond parody of hip-hop swagger has started to resemble the real thing, Ansari's headliner's wardrobe has come to feel natural.
A "CVS Receipt" parody Twitter account has even been started to tap into this growing trend.
The parodies – with titles such as "Detective Stories Gone Wrong: The Adventure of Sherlaw Kombs" – started to appear almost immediately.
It's starting to become a parody of itself, and many artists have taken a step back before they find themselves on the wrong side of music history.
Consider it: make-up so dramatic it starts to look like parody, arch comments and lip curls, practised feminine hand gestures, a personality so large and loud that it becomes intimidating.
There's so much screaming that Bennington starts to risk self-parody, although the tattooed, all-skin-and-muscle singer remains compelling.
The most heartening thing about In Rainbows, besides the fact that it may represent the strongest collection of songs Radiohead have assembled for a decade, is that it ventures into new emotional territories: their last album, 2003's Hail to the Thief, had its moments, but it was scarred by the sense that the band's famed gloominess was starting to tip into self-parody and petulance.
