My personal taste doesn’t enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.
AL YANKOVICI can bend paper clips into the shapes of small animals.
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They do everything from gangsta rap to polka music and every genre in between. It’s amazing.
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It’s hard to force creativity and humor.
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My wife went off with Elvis.
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It’s hard to really articulate what the parameters are that make one song parody-able and another song not, but if I can come up with a good enough idea for it, I go for it, and if not, then I have to move on.
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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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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 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 can’t say enough good things about my band. I feel very fortunate that I found them when I did, very early in my career.
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I don’t really look at myself as the kind of person who craves attention, but I’ve never been to therapy so there’s probably a lot of stuff about myself that I don’t know.
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I enjoy all kinds of music. But it is kind of strange when I do parodies, instead of setting up drums and guitar amps.
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My hobbies just sort of gradually became my vocation.
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As it turns out, there is a thing called the Internet, and stuff does go out there whether the suits like it or not.
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I’ll be mellow when I’m dead.
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The irony is of course that my career has lasted a whole lot longer than some of the people I’ve parodied over the years.
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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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