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I’m very analytical, I’m very precise. I mean, I don’t write for kids.

Al Yankovic

If money can’t buy happiness, then I guess I’ll have to rent it.
AL YANKOVIC

Buy Happiness Guess Money Rent Sassy
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.
AL YANKOVIC

Bulk Finish Fit Mandatory Nicely Pretty Promotion Scheule
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.
AL YANKOVIC

Career Course Iron Last Longer Over Parody People Year
I try not to go the obvious route all the time, but sometimes the most obvious is actually the best.
AL YANKOVIC

Actual Best Most Obvious Route Sometimes Try
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.
AL YANKOVIC

Candidate Clever Enough Good Ostensibly Parody Song Think
When I go to my live shows it’s often a multigenerational audience, a family bonding experience.
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Experience Family Bond Live Show
I’m still a geek on the inside, that’s the important thing.
AL YANKOVIC

Comedy Geek Important Inside Thing
So that’s why one of my rules of parody writing is that it’s gotta be funny regardless of whether you know the source material. It has to work on its own merit.
AL YANKOVIC

Funny Gotta Know Material Merit Parody Regard Rule Source Write
I’ll bet every great thinker and leader we’ve got Could see all kinds of things other people could not!
AL YANKOVIC

Every Great Kind Leader Not Other People Thing Upset
At this point I’ve got a bit of a track record. So people realize that when ‘Weird Al’ wants to go parody, it’s not meant to make them look bad… it’s meant to be a tribute.
AL YANKOVIC

Bad Bookstore Look Point Record Scour Track Tribute Try
The window doesn’t open, the fan is broke, and my face is turning blue. I haven’t been in a crowd like this since I went to see the Who.
AL YANKOVIC

Ace Blue Broke Crowd Fan Open Since Turn Window
I’ll be mellow when I’m dead.
AL YANKOVIC

Dead Death Mellow Suicide
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.
AL YANKOVIC

Ablum Album Attention Better Detail Gotten More Pay Spend Think Time
Some songs are too repetitive for me to be able to fashion a humorous set of lyrics around. Some songs flat-out just don’t work creatively for me.
AL YANKOVIC

Around Creatively Humorous Lyric Repetitive Some Song
I love the way they run in fright when I turn on the kitchen light. And when I squish them on the ground, they make a pleasant crunchy sound.
AL YANKOVIC

Fright Ground Kitchen Light Love Pleasant Run Sound Squish
I’m free to do what I please, I’m probably not going to do albums. Just because I think releasing tracks as singles is a better way for me to stay topical.
AL YANKOVIC

Album Better Free Go Please Probably Realise Topical Way

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