As my father used to tell me, the only true sign of success in life is being able to do for a living that which makes you happy.
AL YANKOVICWhenever I do a parody it’s not meant to make you hate anybody’s music really.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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If you want to avoid heated arguments, never discuss religion, politics, or whether the toilet paper roll should go over or under.
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I can’t get too offended when somebody parodies me.
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I don’t think there are any new media I’d like to cover.
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By the time I’m in the studio recording my parody, 10,000 parodies of that song are on YouTube.
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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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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.
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There aren’t that many superstars around anymore.
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It’s hard to force creativity and humor.
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So I’m one of the few celebrities that got to do a repeat performance on ‘The Simpsons,’ which I’m very flattered by.
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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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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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I was abducted by some aliens from space who kind a looked like Jamie Farr.
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Got a brand new semi-automatic weapon with a laser sight. Oh, I’m praying that somebody tries to break in here tonight.
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I knew we were having problems when you put those piranhas in my bathtub again.
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In fact, when I come up with an idea for a parody I try to resist the urge to Google the idea to see if someone has done it already because the answer is almost always, “Yes, of course they have, they’ve thought of it!”
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