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.
AL YANKOVICAs 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.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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If I could find the right kind of property, get tied in with the right movie, I’d love to be involved, but I just find it hard to be motivated to do another screenplay right now.
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If money can’t buy happiness, then I guess I’ll have to rent it.
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I don’t think there are any new media I’d like to cover.
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I’m very analytical, I’m very precise.
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Whenever I do a parody it’s not meant to make you hate anybody’s music really.
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Every night for dinner we had a big chunk of dirt.
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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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A lot of artists have really been supportive over the years.
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I enjoy all kinds of music. But it is kind of strange when I do parodies, instead of setting up drums and guitar amps.
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I know I’m a million times as humble as thou art!
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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 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.
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I guess I lost a little bit of self-esteem that time that you made it with the whole hockey team.
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I’m known for being an up, high-energy, and optimistic kind of guy.
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Buy our album, were Nirvana, a garage band from Seattle. Well, it sure beats raising cattle.
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