You got me stranded on the bungee tower of love.
AL YANKOVICBecause 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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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.
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A lot of rap songs don’t usually have a lot of melody per se.
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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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Nows the time to go for all the gusto you can grab. You’ll have plenty of time to be low-key when you’re laid out on the slab.
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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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Beans, beans, the magic legumes – the more you ingest, the more you consume.
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I’ve learned how to use my spam filter pretty effectively.
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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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In the ’80s, I was putting out an album virtually every year, I think mostly based on fear – that if I didn’t, people would soon forget about me.
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Didn’t have Nintendo, we just poured salt on snails.
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My personal taste doesn’t enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.
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So that was a joke that I continue up to this very day.
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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 people want to advertise their weirdness, and spread it out, that’s not me.
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If something is good enough, it can be out there and people will see it.
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