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.
AL YANKOVICThe irony is of course that my career has lasted a whole lot longer than some of the people I’ve parodied over the years.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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Well I’ve made no secret of my life long love of MAD Magazine, it’s probably my first and greatest influence in terms of my comic sensibilities. I’ve known John [Ficarra] for many years, and we’ve been friends.
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I’ll be mellow when I’m dead.
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He put Ben Gay inside my jock strap and filled my tooth paste tube up with glue.
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It’s very much a “Weird Al” themed issue, so I’d like to think that there’s a lot of “Weird Al” flavor throughout but I think it’d be generous really to call me an editor.
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I’ve always known that if I recorded an album, it would come out, and people would enjoy it!
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It fit pretty nicely into my schedule because we’d pretty much finished the bulk of promotion for Mandatory Fun and were just getting geared up for the World Tour so this was a nice time for me to be working on it.
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I have very mixed feelings about it. On one hand, I’m concerned that the rampant downloading of my copyright-protected material over the Internet is severely eating into my album sales and having a decidedly adverse effect on my career.
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Because you’re supposed to lose yourself in the character, but sometimes people look at a character and go “Oh, it’s ‘Weird Al.'”
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In the ’80s, I was the only game in town, I was the only one getting that kind of exposure in any rotation on MTV.
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It doesn’t take a military genius to see we’ll all be crispy critters after World War III.
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I’m very analytical, I’m very precise.
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I do a lot of different things, sometimes at the same time, and it’s very difficult to figure out where I fit.
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If money can’t buy happiness, then I guess I’ll have to rent it.
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If I could find the right kind of property, get tied in with the right movie, I’d love to be involved, but I just find it hard to be motivated to do another screenplay right now.
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Take down those naked pictures of Ernest Borgnine.
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