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I’m still a geek on the inside, that’s the important thing.

Al Yankovic

I try not to go the obvious route all the time, but sometimes the most obvious is actually the best.
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Actual Best Most Obvious Route Sometimes Try
I’d rather clean all the bathrooms in Grand Central Station with my tongue than spend one more minute with you.
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Bathroom Clean Grand Minute Spend Station Tongue
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.
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Articulate Enough Idea Make Movie Parameter Song
Pop culture’s gotten much more disposable.
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Culture Disposable More Pop Gotten
It becomes more important to me as time goes on to make every album the best thing I’ve ever done, so it’s a lot of self-imposed pressure that also kind of slows me down a bit.
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Album Best Done Go Important Next Self Thing Time
That’s a big part of my life – doing things that I’m not prepared to do.
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I don’t think there are any new media I’d like to cover.
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Any Cover Media New Think
I’m watching the charts every week and hoping something will pop into my head.
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Chart Head Hope Pop Something Watch Week Will
People say releasing an album is like giving birth, but it’s more like having a gallbladder operation.
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Album Birth Give Operation People
Doing things that I don’t know how to do, and keep doing them until I get good at them.
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Do Good Know Them Thing Until
I know now that everything I write, I’m going to put out, and I’ll have to live with it for the rest of my life.
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Everything Go Life Live Now Out Rest Write
Midget wrestling on channel 3, it costs me 50 bucks a month.
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As a kid, I certainly never thought I would get to spend my life doing something fun.
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I’m very analytical, I’m very precise.
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It was difficult to get into my friends’ rock bands when I was a teenager.
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Difficult Friend Player Rock Teenager
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.
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