He died a long painful death. However, you’ll be happy to hear that just a few years later he was reincarnated as Shirley MacLaine.
AL YANKOVICPeople say releasing an album is like giving birth, but it’s more like having a gallbladder operation.
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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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I’m very analytical, I’m very precise. I mean, I don’t write for kids.
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Like, I have had moments, which I think most people have, where you’ll be watching TV, and it’ll be interrupted by some tragic event, and you’ll actually find yourself thinking,
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Didn’t have Nintendo, we just poured salt on snails.
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How can you get bored if the audience is cheering and laughing at something you’re doing?
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Some people want to advertise their weirdness, and spread it out, that’s not me.
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In the ’80s, I was putting out an album virtually every year, I think mostly based on fear – that if I didn’t, people would soon forget about me.
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Boys like Peter are afraid of alot of things, like nuclear annihilation and flunking algebra, but they’re not afraid of wolves.
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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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You got me stranded on the bungee tower of love.
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I’m known for being an up, high-energy, and optimistic kind of guy.
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I think my chances of ever making it into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame are about as good as Milli Vanilli’s.
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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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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 like to label myself. I know I’m very hard to pigeonhole.
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