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 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.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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Maybe I’ll make a huge color tapestry from my belly button lint.
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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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I’m always a little leery about doing shows where I’m not the headliner because when I first started playing in 1982 I opened for Missing Persons and got pelted for 45 minutes.
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You don’t need to be defined by your job.
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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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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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I’ve learned how to use my spam filter pretty effectively.
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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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I was a huge fan of ‘Mad’ magazine when I was 11, 12, 13 years old. I’d scour used bookstores trying to find back issues, and I’d wait at the newsstand for a new issue to come out. My life revolved around it.
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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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My wife went off with Elvis.
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Doing things that I don’t know how to do, and keep doing them until I get good at them.
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Right now I’m listening to a lot of Top 40 music, because THAT’S MY JOB.
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I like to think that I’ve gotten better at what I do. I spend more time and pay more attention to detail album after album. But pretty much it’s stayed the same.
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I do a lot of different things, sometimes at the same time, and it’s very difficult to figure out where I fit.
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