You slammed my face down on the barbecue grill, now my scars are all healing, but my heart never will.
AL YANKOVICIt becomes more important to me as time goes on to make every album the best thing I’ve ever done, so it’s a lot of self-imposed pressure that also kind of slows me down a bit.
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There are probably a few library fines I haven’t paid yet, but I’m a pretty clean-cut guy overall.
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People say releasing an album is like giving birth, but it’s more like having a gallbladder operation.
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Take down those naked pictures of Ernest Borgnine.
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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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Some people want to advertise their weirdness, and spread it out, that’s not me.
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As my father used to tell me, the only true sign of success in life is being able to do for a living that which makes you happy.
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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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It’s hard to force creativity and humor.
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I’m a music fan, and I can listen to the radio, or music, without thinking, “How am I going to screw this up?” [Laughs] If I’m really actively trying to think of a parody, then I’ll have my antenna out, and be a little more proactive about it.
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It’s hard to really articulate what the parameters are that make one song parody-able and another song not, but if I can come up with a good enough idea for it, I go for it, and if not, then I have to move on.
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I can bend paper clips into the shapes of small animals.
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And then I’ll try and arrange them in a way that they would tell a semi-cohesive story.
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I know I’m a million times as humble as thou art!
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Not any specific one, but I was a huge fan of Frank Jacobs, I guess he wrote the plurality of the song parodies for MAD, Sam Hart, a few others, but that was also where I was first exposed to the art form of song parodies.
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I’m watching the charts every week and hoping something will pop into my head.
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