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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.

Al Yankovic

My personal taste doesn’t enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.
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Book Decison Enetr Parody Personal Read
There’s enough people that do unfunny music. I’ll leave the serious stuff to Paris Hilton and Kevin Federline.
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Country Enough Music People Serious Stuff Unfunny
He put Ben Gay inside my jock strap and filled my tooth paste tube up with glue.
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Gay Inside Jock Paste Revenge Strap Tooth Tube
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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Career Concern Copyright Download Feel Hand MIxed One Rampant Song
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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Decision Even Headline Made Matter People Play Seven Want
Sometimes I get, “Have you ever thought about doing real music?” I like to think the music I do is real, it just happens to be funny.
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Funny Happen Music Real Sometimes Think Thought
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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Along Catch Comfort Hopefully Somewhere Try
Whereas if I wrote a movie script, chances are better than even that I’d just be another guy in L.A. with a movie script in his drawer.
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Another Better Chance Drawer Guy Movie Script
So then why get upset if somebody like me Tries to look at the world just a bit differently?
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Differently Kind Somebody Thing Tries Upset
A lot of artists have really been supportive over the years.
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Artist Supportive Year
You can play some schlock like New Kids On the Block.
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Block Kid Kids New Play Scholar Some
Buy our album, were Nirvana, a garage band from Seattle. Well, it sure beats raising cattle.
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Album Band Bet Cattle Garage Nirvana Our Raise Seattle Sure
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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Funny Gotta Know Material Merit Parody Regard Rule Source Write
Kind of wish I was dead. Maybe, I’ll blow my brains out, mama, or maybe I’ll go bowling.
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Blow Brain Kind Mama Maybe Suicide Wish
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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Automatic Brand Laser Play Revenge Semi Sight Tonight Try
My hobbies just sort of gradually became my vocation.
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Gradually Hobby Sort Vocation

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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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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