I enjoy all kinds of music. But it is kind of strange when I do parodies, instead of setting up drums and guitar amps.
AL YANKOVICI 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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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 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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As much as people are griping about the Internet taking sales away from artists, it’s been a huge promotional tool for me.
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After that, I made the decision to headline no matter what, even if I was playing to seven people. I wanted people to be there to see me.
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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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They do everything from gangsta rap to polka music and every genre in between. It’s amazing.
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Beans, beans, the magic legumes – the more you ingest, the more you consume.
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I don’t watch a lot of other people’s parodies because I don’t want to be unduly influenced.
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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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If you want to avoid heated arguments, never discuss religion, politics, or whether the toilet paper roll should go over or under.
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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.
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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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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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It doesn’t take a military genius to see we’ll all be crispy critters after World War III.
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Sometimes I get, “Have you ever thought about doing real music?” I like to think the music I do is real, it just happens to be funny.
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