Somebody will come up to me after a show and have me sign their arm, and the next time I see them my autograph has been permanently inscribed on their arm.
AL YANKOVICMy personal taste doesn’t enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.
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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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I’ve done a movie and a TV series, and someday I’d like to do a successful movie and a successful TV series. That would be nice.
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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 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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I try not to go the obvious route all the time, but sometimes the most obvious is actually the best.
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I dated Siamese twins, I slept with Big Foot, too. Get me on Sally Jesse, put me on Donahue.
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A lot of artists have really been supportive over the years.
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So then why get upset if somebody like me Tries to look at the world just a bit differently?
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Some people want to advertise their weirdness, and spread it out, that’s not me.
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I am not making this up. Needless to say, as soon as I discovered that, I gave up meat entirely.
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My hobbies just sort of gradually became my vocation.
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Sometimes I get, “Have you ever thought about doing real music?” I like to think the music I do is real, it just happens to be funny.
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Got a brand new semi-automatic weapon with a laser sight. Oh, I’m praying that somebody tries to break in here tonight.
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You can play some schlock like New Kids On the Block.
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When I started out, I didn’t feel like I was really accepted in the music or comedy communities, and I was somewhere on the edge, but now I feel like I’m accepted in both, which is extremely gratifying.
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