I try not to go the obvious route all the time, but sometimes the most obvious is actually the best.
AL YANKOVICI’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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I was able to come up with a couple articles for the magazine, I was able to solicit help from a bunch of my friends to contribute pieces: Patton Oswalt, Seth Green, Emo Phillips, Chris Hardwick, John Hodgman, and more.
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As my father used to tell me, the only true sign of success in life is being able to do for a living that which makes you happy.
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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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Maybe I’ll make a huge color tapestry from my belly button lint.
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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.
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As it turns out, there is a thing called the Internet, and stuff does go out there whether the suits like it or not.
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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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Whereas if I wrote a movie script, chances are better than even that I’d just be another guy in L.A. with a movie script in his drawer.
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Left all my Beatle records out in the sun, got a coke bottle stuck on the end of my tongue.
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Ever since the day you left me, I’ve been so miserable, my dear. I feel almost as bad as I did when you were still here.
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No Joni Mitchell 8 track tapes in my car.
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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 have a long-standing history of respecting artists’ wishes.
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So I try not to pick songs that I know would drive me crazy.
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Velvet Elvis never puts on weight.
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Then I try to come up with ideas for parodies. And 99% of those ideas are horrible.
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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 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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About four or five months ago, at a dinner in New York, John made the very nice offer of my being guest editor for an issue of MAD and I thought about it for about half a nanosecond and decided that was a pretty good idea.
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I’m very analytical, I’m very precise.
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What kind of morons do you have working at newspapers in Austin that would base an entire review of an artist’s performance on whether or not they had a good seat?
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You don’t need to be defined by your job.
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When I started out, I didn’t feel like I was really accepted in the music or comedy communities, and I was somewhere on the edge, but now I feel like I’m accepted in both, which is extremely gratifying.
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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’m known for being an up, high-energy, and optimistic kind of guy.
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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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