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My process for the parodies is that I get an idea for a song and then get approval from the artist and then go in and record it and probably try to get it out as soon as possible.

Al Yankovic

I’m known for being an up, high-energy, and optimistic kind of guy.
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Energy Guy High Kind Known Optimistic
When I go to my live shows it’s often a multigenerational audience, a family bonding experience.
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Experience Family Bond Live Show
After that, I made the decision to headline no matter what, even if I was playing to seven people. I wanted people to be there to see me.
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Decision Even Headline Made Matter People Play Seven Want
People never ask people doing serious music, ‘Do you ever think about doing funny music?’
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Do Funny Music People Serious Think
Some songs are too repetitive for me to be able to fashion a humorous set of lyrics around. Some songs flat-out just don’t work creatively for me.
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Around Creatively Humorous Lyric Repetitive Some Song
Now with internet culture it seems like everyone is doing music parodies. And they’re not all good!
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All Culture Do Everyone Good Internet Music Now Parody Seem
I cut my teeth playing rock songs on the accordion when I was a teenager and my friends always thought that was extremely amusing.
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Accordion Amuse Cut Extreme Paly Rock Song Teenage
Pop culture’s gotten much more disposable.
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Culture Disposable More Pop Gotten
I try not to go the obvious route all the time, but sometimes the most obvious is actually the best.
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Actual Best Most Obvious Route Sometimes Try
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.
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Attention Crave Look Person Probably Stuff Therapy
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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Eighty Exposure Game Getting Kind One Only Rotation Town
No Joni Mitchell 8 track tapes in my car.
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Car No Tape Track
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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Doe Internet Like Out Stuff Suit Turn
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
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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Character Look People Sometimes Suppose Weird Yourself
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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Fin Yourself Interrupt Moment People Television Think Watch

My process for the parodies is that I get an idea for a song and then get approval from the artist and then go in and record it and probably try to get it out as soon as possible.

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My process for the parodies is that I get an idea for a song and then get approval from the artist and then go in and record it and probably try to get it out as soon as possible.

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