A lot of my cartoon voices are basically just variations on my natural voice.
AL YANKOVICSome songs are too repetitive for me to be able to fashion a humorous set of lyrics around. Some songs flat-out just don’t work creatively for me.
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They do everything from gangsta rap to polka music and every genre in between. It’s amazing.
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I do a lot of different things, sometimes at the same time, and it’s very difficult to figure out where I fit.
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I think my chances of ever making it into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame are about as good as Milli Vanilli’s.
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One of my pet peeves is that sometimes the talents of my band get overlooked because, and it was the same problem that Frank Zappa had, with a lot of groups that use humor, people don’t realize there’s a lot of craft behind the comedy.
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I tend to enunciate pretty well. It’s always seemed that my voice is one of those voices that people can recognize pretty easily – which has been a bit of a drawback for some characters.
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You can play some schlock like New Kids On the Block.
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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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I can’t get too offended when somebody parodies me.
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The window doesn’t open, the fan is broke, and my face is turning blue. I haven’t been in a crowd like this since I went to see the Who.
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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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If I could find the right kind of property, get tied in with the right movie, I’d love to be involved, but I just find it hard to be motivated to do another screenplay right now.
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I’d rather clean all the bathrooms in Grand Central Station with my tongue than spend one more minute with you.
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I don’t like to label myself. I know I’m very hard to pigeonhole.
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I don’t think there are any new media I’d like to cover.
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After that, I made the decision to headline no matter what, even if I was playing to seven people. I wanted people to be there to see me.
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