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In a genre where most of the artists are one-hit wonders, I’ve been able to hang around longer than most “serious” acts. I pride myself in being a very talented leech.

Al Yankovic

Buy our album, were Nirvana, a garage band from Seattle. Well, it sure beats raising cattle.
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Album Band Bet Cattle Garage Nirvana Our Raise Seattle Sure
People say releasing an album is like giving birth, but it’s more like having a gallbladder operation.
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Album Birth Give Operation People
Not any specific one, but I was a huge fan of Frank Jacobs, I guess he wrote the plurality of the song parodies for MAD, Sam Hart, a few others, but that was also where I was first exposed to the art form of song parodies.
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Build Fan Feature Guess Huge One People Plura Specific Wrote
I am not making this up. Needless to say, as soon as I discovered that, I gave up meat entirely.
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Discover Entirely Gave Make Meat Needless Soon Up
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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Call Editor Generous Issue Think Throughout Weird
I’m an ugly girl, My face makes you hurl, Sad I have it, I should bag it. Acne everywhere, Unwanted facial hair. I’m a relation to Frankenstein’s creation.
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Acne Bag Everywhere Facial Girl Hair Make Ugly Unwanted
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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Accept Comedy Community Feel Gratifying Like Music Somewhere Start
Whenever I do a parody it’s not meant to make you hate anybody’s music really.
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Anybody Hate Make Music Parody Really
My velvet Elvis means the world to me. Although he may not be worth much dough, he means more to me than some old Rembrandt or Van Gogh.
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Although Dough Mean Some Velvet World Worth
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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Always Decision Do Headline Leery Little Miss People Play Point Show Start
I’m very analytical, I’m very precise.
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Analytical Precise Very
People never ask people doing serious music, ‘Do you ever think about doing funny music?’
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Do Funny Music People Serious Think
A lot of my cartoon voices are basically just variations on my natural voice.
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Basic Cartoon Natural Variation Voice
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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Architect Career Choice Counselor Go Guidance Kid Old Twelve Year
It’s hard to force creativity and humor.
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Creativity Force Hard Humor
I’ve always enjoyed animation and voiceover work. That’s something that I’ve been proactive about.
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Alway Animation Been Enjoy Proactive Something Voiceover Work

In a genre where most of the artists are one-hit wonders, I’ve been able to hang around longer than most “serious” acts. I pride myself in being a very talented leech.

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In a genre where most of the artists are one-hit wonders, I’ve been able to hang around longer than most “serious” acts. I pride myself in being a very talented leech.

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