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As a kid, I certainly never thought I would get to spend my life doing something fun.

Al Yankovic

One of my pet peeves is that sometimes the talents of my band get overlooked because, and it was the same problem that Frank Zappa had, with a lot of groups that use humor, people don’t realize there’s a lot of craft behind the comedy.
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Until you came along I never dated anyone this low on the food chain.
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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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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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That’s a big part of my life – doing things that I’m not prepared to do.
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I enjoy all kinds of music. But it is kind of strange when I do parodies, instead of setting up drums and guitar amps.
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I can’t get too offended when somebody parodies me.
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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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Like, I have had moments, which I think most people have, where you’ll be watching TV, and it’ll be interrupted by some tragic event, and you’ll actually find yourself thinking,
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What kind of morons do you have working at newspapers in Austin that would base an entire review of an artist’s performance on whether or not they had a good seat?
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He put Ben Gay inside my jock strap and filled my tooth paste tube up with glue.
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You make me wanna staple bagels to my face, then remove them with a pitchfork.
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I know now that everything I write, I’m going to put out, and I’ll have to live with it for the rest of my life.
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I have a long-standing history of respecting artists’ wishes.
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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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As a kid, I certainly never thought I would get to spend my life doing something fun.
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