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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I’ll bet every great thinker and leader we’ve got Could see all kinds of things other people could not!
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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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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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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I’d like to be able to be more topical and timely and more of-the-moment and I think the way to do that is, instead of waiting until I have twelve songs to release all at once, just to release them as I come up with them.
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When I swore that you’re getting more and more beautiful everyday. Well, I was only kidding, honey.
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That’s a big part of my life – doing things that I’m not prepared to do.
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As a wise man once said, “April Fools Day is for amateurs. You NEVER need an excuse to mess with people’s heads.”
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I don’t think there are any new media I’d like to cover.
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You can play some schlock like New Kids On the Block.
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Then I try to come up with ideas for parodies. And 99% of those ideas are horrible.
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My brothers and sisters hated me because I was an only child.
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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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I don’t want to hear about this train being derailed! What happened to ‘The Flintstones’?’
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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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In the ’80s, I was the only game in town, I was the only one getting that kind of exposure in any rotation on MTV.
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The music has always been my bread and butter, and I’ve focused more of my attention on that.
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