It fit pretty nicely into my schedule because we’d pretty much finished the bulk of promotion for Mandatory Fun and were just getting geared up for the World Tour so this was a nice time for me to be working on it.
AL YANKOVICI guess I lost a little bit of self-esteem that time that you made it with the whole hockey team.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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One of the hardest things I’ve had to deal with in my career is keeping my material topical even though I only release albums every three or four years.
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I’m stranded all alone in the gas station of love, and I have to use the self service pump.
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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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People never ask people doing serious music, ‘Do you ever think about doing funny music?’
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How can you get bored if the audience is cheering and laughing at something you’re doing?
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That’s something the kids should know about. Reading is a gateway to witchcraft and lesbianism.
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If you want to avoid heated arguments, never discuss religion, politics, or whether the toilet paper roll should go over or under.
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If something is good enough, it can be out there and people will see it.
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I did have a child, and I was reading a lot of picture books to her, but at the same time writing a children’s book was something that I’d been wanting to do for many years, pretty much since the start of my career.
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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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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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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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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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I try to pick songs that I actually like because I realize that I have to live with these songs for a long time, from when I’m working on them in the studio to possibly playing them onstage for the rest of my life.
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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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