I’m always a little leery about doing shows where I’m not the headliner because when I first started playing in 1982 I opened for Missing Persons and got pelted for 45 minutes.
AL YANKOVICI 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’m obviously not a rapper, and I don’t have any claims to be one, really.
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Every night for dinner we had a big chunk of dirt.
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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’d rather clean all the bathrooms in Grand Central Station with my tongue than spend one more minute with you.
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That’s a big part of my life – doing things that I’m not prepared to do.
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You make me wanna staple bagels to my face, then remove them with a pitchfork.
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I’m just a no-good, scum sucking, nose picking, boot licking, sniveling, groveling, worthless hunk of slime.
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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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So I try not to pick songs that I know would drive me crazy.
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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.
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Didn’t have Nintendo, we just poured salt on snails.
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As a kid, I certainly never thought I would get to spend my life doing something fun.
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My hobbies just sort of gradually became my vocation.
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I don’t watch anything on a regular basis – I tend to binge-watch things.
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I decided that I wanted to be a voice on every animated cartoon in the history of the world – even shows that haven’t been on the air for a very long time, that’s going to be harder to pull off.
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