I don’t really look at myself as the kind of person who craves attention, but I’ve never been to therapy so there’s probably a lot of stuff about myself that I don’t know.
AL YANKOVICI don’t really look at myself as the kind of person who craves attention, but I’ve never been to therapy so there’s probably a lot of stuff about myself that I don’t know.
AL YANKOVICI’ve done a movie and a TV series, and someday I’d like to do a successful movie and a successful TV series. That would be nice.
AL YANKOVICWell 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.
AL YANKOVICI don’t watch anything on a regular basis – I tend to binge-watch things.
AL YANKOVICDidn’t have Nintendo, we just poured salt on snails.
AL YANKOVICI’m free to do what I please, I’m probably not going to do albums. Just because I think releasing tracks as singles is a better way for me to stay topical.
AL YANKOVICI do a lot of different things, sometimes at the same time, and it’s very difficult to figure out where I fit.
AL YANKOVICA lot of my cartoon voices are basically just variations on my natural voice.
AL YANKOVICMaybe I’ll make a huge color tapestry from my belly button lint.
AL YANKOVICA lot of rap songs don’t usually have a lot of melody per se.
AL YANKOVICI know I’m a million times as humble as thou art!
AL YANKOVICI don’t like to label myself. I know I’m very hard to pigeonhole.
AL YANKOVICI’d like to be able to be more topical and timely and more of-the-moment and I think the way to do that is, instead of waiting until I have twelve songs to release all at once, just to release them as I come up with them.
AL YANKOVICI 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.
AL YANKOVICI’m stranded all alone in the gas station of love, and I have to use the self service pump.
AL YANKOVICThey somehow didn’t see the need for an accordion player. That’s when I realized that I had to find my own path in life.
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