Velvet Elvis never puts on weight.
AL YANKOVICI think that nerds, if you want to call them that, have only gotten more hip and assimilated into the culture.
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I was a huge fan of ‘Mad’ magazine when I was 11, 12, 13 years old. I’d scour used bookstores trying to find back issues, and I’d wait at the newsstand for a new issue to come out. My life revolved around it.
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As much as people are griping about the Internet taking sales away from artists, it’s been a huge promotional tool for me.
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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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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’m just a no-good, scum sucking, nose picking, boot licking, sniveling, groveling, worthless hunk of slime.
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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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I have very mixed feelings about it. On one hand, I’m concerned that the rampant downloading of my copyright-protected material over the Internet is severely eating into my album sales and having a decidedly adverse effect on my career.
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As my father used to tell me, the only true sign of success in life is being able to do for a living that which makes you happy.
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I decided that I wanted to be a voice on every animated cartoon in the history of the world – even shows that haven’t been on the air for a very long time, that’s going to be harder to pull off.
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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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When I was a kid, I thought I was going to be an architect, because when I was 12 years old I had a guidance counselor that convinced me that that was the best career choice for me.
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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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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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Left all my Beatle records out in the sun, got a coke bottle stuck on the end of my tongue.
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Right now I’m listening to a lot of Top 40 music, because THAT’S MY JOB.
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