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 like to label myself. I know I’m very hard to pigeonhole.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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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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Left all my Beatle records out in the sun, got a coke bottle stuck on the end of my tongue.
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Until you came along I never dated anyone this low on the food chain.
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I enjoy all kinds of music. But it is kind of strange when I do parodies, instead of setting up drums and guitar amps.
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Whenever I do a parody it’s not meant to make you hate anybody’s music really.
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When I started out, I didn’t feel like I was really accepted in the music or comedy communities, and I was somewhere on the edge, but now I feel like I’m accepted in both, which is extremely gratifying.
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I suppose I had my rock star fantasies while I was singing into my hairbrush in the bathroom mirror, but I never really consciously said, ‘OK, this is what I’m going to do for a living and I’m going to be Weird Al.’
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There’s a lot of different ways that a song would be a challenge to parody.
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I make charts of songs that are good candidates, good targets, so to speak.
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It fit pretty nicely into my schedule because we’d pretty much finished the bulk of promotion for Mandatory Fun and were just getting geared up for the World Tour so this was a nice time for me to be working on it.
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You got me stranded on the bungee tower of love.
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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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I’m obviously not a rapper, and I don’t have any claims to be one, really.
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I don’t like to label myself. I know I’m very hard to pigeonhole.
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You still have Top 40 radio now, but it’s 40 different stations. There aren’t many hits that everybody knows, and there aren’t many real superstars.
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