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It 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.

Al Yankovic

Some people want to advertise their weirdness, and spread it out, that’s not me.
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When I was a kid, I thought I was going to be an architect, because when I was 12 years old I had a guidance counselor that convinced me that that was the best career choice for me.
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My velvet Elvis means the world to me. Although he may not be worth much dough, he means more to me than some old Rembrandt or Van Gogh.
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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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I think that was the genesis of my polka medleys, because every rock song I played on the accordion just sounded like a polka and my friends thought it was funny.
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My personal taste doesn’t enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.
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It doesn’t take a military genius to see we’ll all be crispy critters after World War III.
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There’s a lot of different ways that a song would be a challenge to parody.
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I’ve always enjoyed animation and voiceover work. That’s something that I’ve been proactive about.
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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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People that were a little nerdy in high school would look up to me and know it gets better.
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I do a lot of different things, sometimes at the same time, and it’s very difficult to figure out where I fit.
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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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I do original songs in the style of other artists, where I try to learn all their musical idiosyncrasies and try to do something that sounds like them and yet is a bit more sick and twisted.
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Doing things that I don’t know how to do, and keep doing them until I get good at them.
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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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It 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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It 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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