I’m known for being an up, high-energy, and optimistic kind of guy.
AL YANKOVICHe died a long painful death. However, you’ll be happy to hear that just a few years later he was reincarnated as Shirley MacLaine.
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Every night for dinner we had a big chunk of dirt.
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You can play some schlock like New Kids On the Block.
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People never ask people doing serious music, ‘Do you ever think about doing funny music?’
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Ever since the day you left me, I’ve been so miserable, my dear. I feel almost as bad as I did when you were still here.
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My brothers and sisters hated me because I was an only child.
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That’s something the kids should know about. Reading is a gateway to witchcraft and lesbianism.
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So then why get upset if somebody like me Tries to look at the world just a bit differently?
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There aren’t that many superstars around anymore.
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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.
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My hobbies just sort of gradually became my vocation.
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I try not to go the obvious route all the time, but sometimes the most obvious is actually the best.
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I don’t like to label myself. I know I’m very hard to pigeonhole.
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There are probably a few library fines I haven’t paid yet, but I’m a pretty clean-cut guy overall.
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I love the way they run in fright when I turn on the kitchen light. And when I squish them on the ground, they make a pleasant crunchy sound.
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How can you get bored if the audience is cheering and laughing at something you’re doing?
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About four or five months ago, at a dinner in New York, John made the very nice offer of my being guest editor for an issue of MAD and I thought about it for about half a nanosecond and decided that was a pretty good idea.
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I think I’m equally as abusive as the editors normally are for the “Letters and Tomatoes” column, which is the fan mail part of MAD Magazine and an ongoing feature.
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After that, I made the decision to headline no matter what, even if I was playing to seven people. I wanted people to be there to see me.
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I can bend paper clips into the shapes of small animals.
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I guess I lost a little bit of self-esteem that time that you made it with the whole hockey team.
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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 can’t get too offended when somebody parodies me.
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I have a long-standing history of respecting artists’ wishes.
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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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There’s enough people that do unfunny music. I’ll leave the serious stuff to Paris Hilton and Kevin Federline.
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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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