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.
AL YANKOVICI’d rather clean all the bathrooms in Grand Central Station with my tongue than spend one more minute with you.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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A lot of my cartoon voices are basically just variations on my natural voice.
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I don’t like to label myself. I know I’m very hard to pigeonhole.
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Now with internet culture it seems like everyone is doing music parodies. And they’re not all good!
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My own personal tastes don’t really have an effect on whether song is a parody target or not. But having said that,
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I was able to come up with a couple articles for the magazine, I was able to solicit help from a bunch of my friends to contribute pieces: Patton Oswalt, Seth Green, Emo Phillips, Chris Hardwick, John Hodgman, and more.
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Pop culture’s gotten much more disposable.
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Whereas if I wrote a movie script, chances are better than even that I’d just be another guy in L.A. with a movie script in his drawer.
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I’m very analytical, I’m very precise. I mean, I don’t write for kids.
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As a wise man once said, “April Fools Day is for amateurs. You NEVER need an excuse to mess with people’s heads.”
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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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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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I start with a comprehensive list of all the recent songs that have been big hits – and then I go down that list and see if I can come up with funny ideas for them. I can always come up with ideas, but not necessarily good ones!
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I think that nerds, if you want to call them that, have only gotten more hip and assimilated into the culture.
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Kind of wish I was dead. Maybe, I’ll blow my brains out, mama, or maybe I’ll go bowling.
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I suppose I had my rock star fantasies while I was singing into my hairbrush in the bathroom mirror, but I never really consciously said, ‘OK, this is what I’m going to do for a living and I’m going to be Weird Al.’
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