You don’t need to be defined by your job.
AL YANKOVICSomebody will come up to me after a show and have me sign their arm, and the next time I see them my autograph has been permanently inscribed on their arm.
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My brothers and sisters hated me because I was an only child.
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I can bend paper clips into the shapes of small animals.
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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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My hobbies just sort of gradually became my vocation.
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I do original songs in the style of other artists, where I try to learn all their musical idiosyncrasies and try to do something that sounds like them and yet is a bit more sick and twisted.
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It fit pretty nicely into my schedule because we’d pretty much finished the bulk of promotion for Mandatory Fun and were just getting geared up for the World Tour so this was a nice time for me to be working on it.
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A lot of my cartoon voices are basically just variations on my natural voice.
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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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I was abducted by some aliens from space who kind a looked like Jamie Farr.
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A lot of rap songs don’t usually have a lot of melody per se.
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It’s very much a “Weird Al” themed issue, so I’d like to think that there’s a lot of “Weird Al” flavor throughout but I think it’d be generous really to call me an editor.
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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.
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Take down those naked pictures of Ernest Borgnine.
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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’m just a no-good, scum sucking, nose picking, boot licking, sniveling, groveling, worthless hunk of slime.
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