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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.

Al Yankovic

It’s hard to force creativity and humor.
AL YANKOVIC

Creativity Force Hard Humor
At this point I’ve got a bit of a track record. So people realize that when ‘Weird Al’ wants to go parody, it’s not meant to make them look bad… it’s meant to be a tribute.
AL YANKOVIC

Bad Bookstore Look Point Record Scour Track Tribute Try
I think I’m equally as abusive as the editors normally are for the “Letters and Tomatoes” column, which is the fan mail part of MAD Magazine and an ongoing feature.
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Abusive Column Editor Equally Letter Mad Normal Ongoing Think Tomato
You slammed my face down on the barbecue grill, now my scars are all healing, but my heart never will.
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Barbecue Down Face Heal Heart Scar Slam
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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Career Concern Copyright Download Feel Hand MIxed One Rampant Song
I can’t get too offended when somebody parodies me.
AL YANKOVIC

Get Me Offend Parody Somebody Too
I’d like to be able to be more topical and timely and more of-the-moment and I think the way to do that is, instead of waiting until I have twelve songs to release all at once, just to release them as I come up with them.
AL YANKOVIC

Able Instead Moment More Release Song Think Timely Topical War
I knew we were having problems when you put those piranhas in my bathtub again.
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Again Bathtub Have Piranhas Problem Relationship
Pop culture’s gotten much more disposable.
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Culture Disposable More Pop Gotten
I 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.
AL YANKOVIC

Attention Crave Look Person Probably Stuff Therapy
Beans, beans, the magic legumes – the more you ingest, the more you consume.
AL YANKOVIC

Bean Consume Ingest Magic More
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 YANKOVIC

Better Death Little Long Look Nerdy People Year
I was able to come up with a couple articles for the magazine, I was able to solicit help from a bunch of my friends to contribute pieces: Patton Oswalt, Seth Green, Emo Phillips, Chris Hardwick, John Hodgman, and more.
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Able Article Bunch Come Couple Friend Magazine Solicit
In a genre where most of the artists are one-hit wonders, I’ve been able to hang around longer than most “serious” acts. I pride myself in being a very talented leech.
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Around Artist Genre Hang Longer Most Serious Talent Wonder
I try to pick songs that I actually like because I realize that I have to live with these songs for a long time, from when I’m working on them in the studio to possibly playing them onstage for the rest of my life.
AL YANKOVIC

Actual Life Long Onstage Pick Possible Realize Rest Song Studio Time Work
Every night for dinner we had a big chunk of dirt.
AL YANKOVIC

Big Chunk Dinner Dirt Every Night Reality

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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