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 YANKOVICI’m very analytical, I’m very precise. I mean, I don’t write for kids.
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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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The irony is of course that my career has lasted a whole lot longer than some of the people I’ve parodied over the years.
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I like the guitar-driven music of Nirvana at its peak. At that point, I thought there was a lot of really exciting music coming out.
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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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I’ve learned how to use my spam filter pretty effectively.
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Until you came along I never dated anyone this low on the food chain.
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Buy our album, were Nirvana, a garage band from Seattle. Well, it sure beats raising cattle.
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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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When I go to my live shows it’s often a multigenerational audience, a family bonding experience.
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I’m still a geek on the inside, that’s the important thing.
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I’m always a little leery about doing shows where I’m not the headliner because when I first started playing in 1982 I opened for Missing Persons and got pelted for 45 minutes.
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I’ll be mellow when I’m dead.
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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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I think that was the genesis of my polka medleys, because every rock song I played on the accordion just sounded like a polka and my friends thought it was funny.
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I always try to put myself out of my comfort zone and out of my depth, and hopefully somewhere along the line I’ll catch up.
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