Some songs are too repetitive for me to be able to fashion a humorous set of lyrics around. Some songs flat-out just don’t work creatively for me.
AL YANKOVICIt was difficult to get into my friends’ rock bands when I was a teenager.
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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 don’t like to label myself. I know I’m very hard to pigeonhole.
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I try to pick songs that I actually like because I realize that I have to live with these songs for a long time, from when I’m working on them in the studio to possibly playing them onstage for the rest of my life.
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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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I love the way they run in fright when I turn on the kitchen light. And when I squish them on the ground, they make a pleasant crunchy sound.
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When I go to my live shows it’s often a multigenerational audience, a family bonding experience.
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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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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 have a long-standing history of respecting artists’ wishes.
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If money can’t buy happiness, then I guess I’ll have to rent it.
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Probably 90 percent of my albums have polka medleys.
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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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I’m very analytical, I’m very precise.
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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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