It was difficult to get into my friends’ rock bands when I was a teenager.
AL YANKOVICI 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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Like, I have had moments, which I think most people have, where you’ll be watching TV, and it’ll be interrupted by some tragic event, and you’ll actually find yourself thinking,
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There aren’t that many superstars around anymore.
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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 don’t like to label myself. I know I’m very hard to pigeonhole.
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I think my chances of ever making it into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame are about as good as Milli Vanilli’s.
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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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You can try on our suede underwear if you choose. Do what you want, but don’t step on my blue suede shoes.
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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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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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There’s a lot of different ways that a song would be a challenge to parody.
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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’d rather clean all the bathrooms in Grand Central Station with my tongue than spend one more minute with you.
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I’ll be mellow when I’m dead.
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I suppose I had my rock star fantasies while I was singing into my hairbrush in the bathroom mirror, but I never really consciously said, ‘OK, this is what I’m going to do for a living and I’m going to be Weird Al.’
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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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