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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.

Al Yankovic

I was able to come up with a couple articles for the magazine, I was able to solicit help from a bunch of my friends to contribute pieces: Patton Oswalt, Seth Green, Emo Phillips, Chris Hardwick, John Hodgman, and more.
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Beans, beans, the magic legumes – the more you ingest, the more you consume.
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They 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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I’m known for being an up, high-energy, and optimistic kind of guy.
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I guess I lost a little bit of self-esteem that time that you made it with the whole hockey team.
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As it turns out, there is a thing called the Internet, and stuff does go out there whether the suits like it or not.
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I think that nerds, if you want to call them that, have only gotten more hip and assimilated into the culture.
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So then why get upset if somebody like me Tries to look at the world just a bit differently?
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As much as people are griping about the Internet taking sales away from artists, it’s been a huge promotional tool for me.
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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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So I try not to pick songs that I know would drive me crazy.
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Some songs are too repetitive for me to be able to fashion a humorous set of lyrics around. Some songs flat-out just don’t work creatively for me.
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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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In a genre where most of the artists are one-hit wonders, I’ve been able to hang around longer than most “serious” acts. I pride myself in being a very talented leech.
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It becomes more important to me as time goes on to make every album the best thing I’ve ever done, so it’s a lot of self-imposed pressure that also kind of slows me down a bit.
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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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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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