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The irony is of course that my career has lasted a whole lot longer than some of the people I’ve parodied over the years.

Al Yankovic

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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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 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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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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There’s a lot of different ways that a song would be a challenge to parody.
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I’ve always enjoyed animation and voiceover work. That’s something that I’ve been proactive about.
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It becomes more important to me as time goes on to make every album the best thing I’ve ever done, so it’s a lot of self-imposed pressure that also kind of slows me down a bit.
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I make charts of songs that are good candidates, good targets, so to speak.
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I’ve always known that if I recorded an album, it would come out, and people would enjoy it!
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Kind of wish I was dead. Maybe, I’ll blow my brains out, mama, or maybe I’ll go bowling.
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What kind of morons do you have working at newspapers in Austin that would base an entire review of an artist’s performance on whether or not they had a good seat?
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My brothers and sisters hated me because I was an only child.
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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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Right now I’m listening to a lot of Top 40 music, because THAT’S MY JOB.
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Velvet Elvis never puts on weight.
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never Put Velvet Weight

The irony is of course that my career has lasted a whole lot longer than some of the people I’ve parodied over the years.

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