I don’t like to label myself. I know I’m very hard to pigeonhole.
AL YANKOVICIn fact, when I come up with an idea for a parody I try to resist the urge to Google the idea to see if someone has done it already because the answer is almost always, “Yes, of course they have, they’ve thought of it!”
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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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So then why get upset if somebody like me Tries to look at the world just a bit differently?
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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.
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I have a long-standing history of respecting artists’ wishes.
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It was difficult to get into my friends’ rock bands when I was a teenager.
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I can’t say enough good things about my band. I feel very fortunate that I found them when I did, very early in my career.
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Somebody will come up to me after a show and have me sign their arm, and the next time I see them my autograph has been permanently inscribed on their arm.
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No Joni Mitchell 8 track tapes in my car.
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My own personal tastes don’t really have an effect on whether song is a parody target or not. But having said that,
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I’m just a no-good, scum sucking, nose picking, boot licking, sniveling, groveling, worthless hunk of slime.
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In the ’80s, I was the only game in town, I was the only one getting that kind of exposure in any rotation on MTV.
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After that, I made the decision to headline no matter what, even if I was playing to seven people. I wanted people to be there to see me.
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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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About four or five months ago, at a dinner in New York, John made the very nice offer of my being guest editor for an issue of MAD and I thought about it for about half a nanosecond and decided that was a pretty good idea.
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They do everything from gangsta rap to polka music and every genre in between. It’s amazing.
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