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The music has always been my bread and butter, and I’ve focused more of my attention on that.

Al Yankovic

I don’t watch anything on a regular basis – I tend to binge-watch things.
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So that’s why one of my rules of parody writing is that it’s gotta be funny regardless of whether you know the source material. It has to work on its own merit.
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I’ve always known that if I recorded an album, it would come out, and people would enjoy it!
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You make me wanna staple bagels to my face, then remove them with a pitchfork.
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My process for the parodies is that I get an idea for a song and then get approval from the artist and then go in and record it and probably try to get it out as soon as possible.
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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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If you want to avoid heated arguments, never discuss religion, politics, or whether the toilet paper roll should go over or under.
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You fake something until you’re good at it.
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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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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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I’m watching the charts every week and hoping something will pop into my head.
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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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The irony is of course that my career has lasted a whole lot longer than some of the people I’ve parodied over the years.
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I’m known for being an up, high-energy, and optimistic kind of guy.
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It’s hard to force creativity and humor.
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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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