I’m obviously not a rapper, and I don’t have any claims to be one, really.
AL YANKOVICI don’t watch anything on a regular basis – I tend to binge-watch things.
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My brothers and sisters hated me because I was an only child.
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I tend to enunciate pretty well. It’s always seemed that my voice is one of those voices that people can recognize pretty easily – which has been a bit of a drawback for some characters.
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As it turns out, there is a thing called the Internet, and stuff does go out there whether the suits like it or not.
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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.
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People never ask people doing serious music, ‘Do you ever think about doing funny music?’
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If I could find the right kind of property, get tied in with the right movie, I’d love to be involved, but I just find it hard to be motivated to do another screenplay right now.
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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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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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Many years ago I found out something about hamburgers that really grossed me out. You may not know this, so I hope I don’t make you sick, but it turns out hamburgers are actually made out of dead cows.
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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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I knew we were having problems when you put those piranhas in my bathtub again.
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You fake something until you’re good at it.
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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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You can play some schlock like New Kids On the Block.
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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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