So I try not to pick songs that I know would drive me crazy.
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Buy our album, were Nirvana, a garage band from Seattle. Well, it sure beats raising cattle.
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The music has always been my bread and butter, and I’ve focused more of my attention on that.
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Take down those naked pictures of Ernest Borgnine.
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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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Then I try to come up with ideas for parodies. And 99% of those ideas are horrible.
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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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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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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 always try to put myself out of my comfort zone and out of my depth, and hopefully somewhere along the line I’ll catch up.
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Because you’re supposed to lose yourself in the character, but sometimes people look at a character and go “Oh, it’s ‘Weird Al.'”
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There are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for parody, yet I can’t think of a clever enough idea.
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When I go to my live shows it’s often a multigenerational audience, a family bonding experience.
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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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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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They do everything from gangsta rap to polka music and every genre in between. It’s amazing.
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