I like to think that I’ve gotten better at what I do. I spend more time and pay more attention to detail album after album. But pretty much it’s stayed the same.
AL YANKOVICI’m watching the charts every week and hoping something will pop into my head.
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Doing things that I don’t know how to do, and keep doing them until I get good at them.
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I know now that everything I write, I’m going to put out, and I’ll have to live with it for the rest of my life.
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A lot of artists have really been supportive over the years.
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It’s hard to force creativity and humor.
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You still have Top 40 radio now, but it’s 40 different stations. There aren’t many hits that everybody knows, and there aren’t many real superstars.
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No Joni Mitchell 8 track tapes in my car.
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Until you came along I never dated anyone this low on the food chain.
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As a kid, I certainly never thought I would get to spend my life doing something fun.
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I write and write and write, and then I edit it down to the parts that I think are amusing, or that help the storyline, or I’ll write a notebook full of ideas of anecdotes or story points.
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I did have a child, and I was reading a lot of picture books to her, but at the same time writing a children’s book was something that I’d been wanting to do for many years, pretty much since the start of my career.
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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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On the other hand, I can get all the Metallica songs I want for FREE! WOW!
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I am not making this up. Needless to say, as soon as I discovered that, I gave up meat entirely.
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I don’t watch a lot of other people’s parodies because I don’t want to be unduly influenced.
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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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