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I know now that everything I write, I’m going to put out, and I’ll have to live with it for the rest of my life.

Al Yankovic

In the ’80s, I was putting out an album virtually every year, I think mostly based on fear – that if I didn’t, people would soon forget about me.
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There’s enough people that do unfunny music. I’ll leave the serious stuff to Paris Hilton and Kevin Federline.
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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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There are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for parody, yet I can’t think of a clever enough idea.
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People say releasing an album is like giving birth, but it’s more like having a gallbladder operation.
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Nows the time to go for all the gusto you can grab. You’ll have plenty of time to be low-key when you’re laid out on the slab.
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You make me wanna staple bagels to my face, then remove them with a pitchfork.
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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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I don’t want to hear about this train being derailed! What happened to ‘The Flintstones’?’
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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’ve always enjoyed animation and voiceover work. That’s something that I’ve been proactive about.
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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 am not making this up. Needless to say, as soon as I discovered that, I gave up meat entirely.
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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 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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When I swore that you’re getting more and more beautiful everyday. Well, I was only kidding, honey.
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My personal taste doesn’t enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.
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Now with internet culture it seems like everyone is doing music parodies. And they’re not all good!
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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 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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I dated Siamese twins, I slept with Big Foot, too. Get me on Sally Jesse, put me on Donahue.
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I’d like to be able to be more topical and timely and more of-the-moment and I think the way to do that is, instead of waiting until I have twelve songs to release all at once, just to release them as I come up with them.
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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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I’m stranded all alone in the gas station of love, and I have to use the self service pump.
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I’m very analytical, I’m very precise. I mean, I don’t write for kids.
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There’s a lot of different ways that a song would be a challenge to parody.
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So I try not to pick songs that I know would drive me crazy.
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I know now that everything I write, I’m going to put out, and I’ll have to live with it for the rest of my life.

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