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.
AL YANKOVICI cut my teeth playing rock songs on the accordion when I was a teenager and my friends always thought that was extremely amusing.
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Got a brand new semi-automatic weapon with a laser sight. Oh, I’m praying that somebody tries to break in here tonight.
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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.
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Midget wrestling on channel 3, it costs me 50 bucks a month.
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Probably 90 percent of my albums have polka medleys.
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Buy our album, were Nirvana, a garage band from Seattle. Well, it sure beats raising cattle.
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I always try to put myself out of my comfort zone and out of my depth, and hopefully somewhere along the line I’ll catch up.
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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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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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Somebody will come up to me after a show and have me sign their arm, and the next time I see them my autograph has been permanently inscribed on their arm.
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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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A lot of my cartoon voices are basically just variations on my natural voice.
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There are probably a few library fines I haven’t paid yet, but I’m a pretty clean-cut guy overall.
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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’m still a geek on the inside, that’s the important thing.
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I think that was the genesis of my polka medleys, because every rock song I played on the accordion just sounded like a polka and my friends thought it was funny.
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