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Whereas if I wrote a movie script, chances are better than even that I’d just be another guy in L.A. with a movie script in his drawer.

Al Yankovic

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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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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Then I try to come up with ideas for parodies. And 99% of those ideas are horrible.
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I have very mixed feelings about it. On one hand, I’m concerned that the rampant downloading of my copyright-protected material over the Internet is severely eating into my album sales and having a decidedly adverse effect on my career.
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Career Concern Copyright Download Feel Hand MIxed One Rampant Song
I mean, I hate to gloat, but I’m extremely satisfied with my position in life and the way things have worked out for me.
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They somehow didn’t see the need for an accordion player. That’s when I realized that I had to find my own path in life.
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It was difficult to get into my friends’ rock bands when I was a teenager.
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People that were a little nerdy in high school would look up to me and know it gets better.
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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 always try to put myself out of my comfort zone and out of my depth, and hopefully somewhere along the line I’ll catch up.
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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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And then I’ll try and arrange them in a way that they would tell a semi-cohesive story.
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He put Ben Gay inside my jock strap and filled my tooth paste tube up with glue.
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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’ve always known that if I recorded an album, it would come out, and people would enjoy it!
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So then why get upset if somebody like me Tries to look at the world just a bit differently?
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Whereas if I wrote a movie script, chances are better than even that I’d just be another guy in L.A. with a movie script in his drawer.

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