I mean, I hate to gloat, but I’m extremely satisfied with my position in life and the way things have worked out for me.
AL YANKOVICI’ve always known that if I recorded an album, it would come out, and people would enjoy it!
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Then I try to come up with ideas for parodies. And 99% of those ideas are horrible.
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My personal taste doesn’t enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.
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I can bend paper clips into the shapes of small animals.
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People that were a little nerdy in high school would look up to me and know it gets better.
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A lot of my cartoon voices are basically just variations on my natural voice.
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I do original songs in the style of other artists, where I try to learn all their musical idiosyncrasies and try to do something that sounds like them and yet is a bit more sick and twisted.
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You don’t need to be defined by your job.
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If something is good enough, it can be out there and people will see it.
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Nows the time to go for all the gusto you can grab. You’ll have plenty of time to be low-key when you’re laid out on the slab.
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Now with internet culture it seems like everyone is doing music parodies. And they’re not all good!
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I decided that I wanted to be a voice on every animated cartoon in the history of the world – even shows that haven’t been on the air for a very long time, that’s going to be harder to pull off.
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I don’t want to pooh-pooh modern pop. I appreciate that as well, but my personal favorite kind of music is guitar-based rock. I like grunge and garage bands and alternative music, but that’s more my personal taste.
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Because you’re supposed to lose yourself in the character, but sometimes people look at a character and go “Oh, it’s ‘Weird Al.'”
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I don’t think there are any new media I’d like to cover.
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Didn’t have Nintendo, we just poured salt on snails.
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