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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.

Al Yankovic

I know I’m a million times as humble as thou art!
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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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I’m a music fan, and I can listen to the radio, or music, without thinking, “How am I going to screw this up?” [Laughs] If I’m really actively trying to think of a parody, then I’ll have my antenna out, and be a little more proactive about it.
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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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On the other hand, I can get all the Metallica songs I want for FREE! WOW!
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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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Boys like Peter are afraid of alot of things, like nuclear annihilation and flunking algebra, but they’re not afraid of wolves.
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It’s very much a “Weird Al” themed issue, so I’d like to think that there’s a lot of “Weird Al” flavor throughout but I think it’d be generous really to call me an editor.
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So I try not to pick songs that I know would drive me crazy.
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I’m always a little leery about doing shows where I’m not the headliner because when I first started playing in 1982 I opened for Missing Persons and got pelted for 45 minutes.
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So that’s why one of my rules of parody writing is that it’s gotta be funny regardless of whether you know the source material. It has to work on its own merit.
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I was abducted by some aliens from space who kind a looked like Jamie Farr.
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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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There’s a lot of different ways that a song would be a challenge to parody.
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Some people want to advertise their weirdness, and spread it out, that’s not me.
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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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