I guess I lost a little bit of self-esteem that time that you made it with the whole hockey team.
AL YANKOVICI’m watching the charts every week and hoping something will pop into my head.
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I think that was the genesis of my polka medleys, because every rock song I played on the accordion just sounded like a polka and my friends thought it was funny.
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I suppose I had my rock star fantasies while I was singing into my hairbrush in the bathroom mirror, but I never really consciously said, ‘OK, this is what I’m going to do for a living and I’m going to be Weird Al.’
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It was difficult to get into my friends’ rock bands when I was a teenager.
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I don’t like to label myself. I know I’m very hard to pigeonhole.
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A lot of rap songs don’t usually have a lot of melody per se.
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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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You can try on our suede underwear if you choose. Do what you want, but don’t step on my blue suede shoes.
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There aren’t that many superstars around anymore.
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Some people want to advertise their weirdness, and spread it out, that’s not me.
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It’s hard to force creativity and humor.
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Buy our album, were Nirvana, a garage band from Seattle. Well, it sure beats raising cattle.
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I dated Siamese twins, I slept with Big Foot, too. Get me on Sally Jesse, put me on Donahue.
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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’m free to do what I please, I’m probably not going to do albums. Just because I think releasing tracks as singles is a better way for me to stay topical.
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Like, I have had moments, which I think most people have, where you’ll be watching TV, and it’ll be interrupted by some tragic event, and you’ll actually find yourself thinking,
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