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.
AL YANKOVICHe died a long painful death. However, you’ll be happy to hear that just a few years later he was reincarnated as Shirley MacLaine.
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No Joni Mitchell 8 track tapes in my car.
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There are probably a few library fines I haven’t paid yet, but I’m a pretty clean-cut guy overall.
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Buy our album, were Nirvana, a garage band from Seattle. Well, it sure beats raising cattle.
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When I was a kid, I thought I was going to be an architect, because when I was 12 years old I had a guidance counselor that convinced me that that was the best career choice for me.
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I tend to enunciate pretty well. It’s always seemed that my voice is one of those voices that people can recognize pretty easily – which has been a bit of a drawback for some characters.
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I’m stranded all alone in the gas station of love, and I have to use the self service pump.
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Kind of wish I was dead. Maybe, I’ll blow my brains out, mama, or maybe I’ll go bowling.
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I’ve done a movie and a TV series, and someday I’d like to do a successful movie and a successful TV series. That would be nice.
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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 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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I knew we were having problems when you put those piranhas in my bathtub again.
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Not any specific one, but I was a huge fan of Frank Jacobs, I guess he wrote the plurality of the song parodies for MAD, Sam Hart, a few others, but that was also where I was first exposed to the art form of song parodies.
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So I’m one of the few celebrities that got to do a repeat performance on ‘The Simpsons,’ which I’m very flattered by.
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Probably 90 percent of my albums have polka medleys.
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When I swore that you’re getting more and more beautiful everyday. Well, I was only kidding, honey.
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