I think my chances of ever making it into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame are about as good as Milli Vanilli’s.
AL YANKOVICWhen I was a kid, I thought I was going to be an architect, because when I was 12 years old I had a guidance counselor that convinced me that that was the best career choice for me.
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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 do original songs in the style of other artists, where I try to learn all their musical idiosyncrasies and try to do something that sounds like them and yet is a bit more sick and twisted.
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When I was a kid, I thought I was going to be an architect, because when I was 12 years old I had a guidance counselor that convinced me that that was the best career choice for me.
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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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If something is good enough, it can be out there and people will see it.
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I don’t like to label myself. I know I’m very hard to pigeonhole.
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I knew we were having problems when you put those piranhas in my bathtub again.
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So that was a joke that I continue up to this very day.
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It’s hard to force creativity and humor.
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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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Some songs are too repetitive for me to be able to fashion a humorous set of lyrics around. Some songs flat-out just don’t work creatively for me.
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I don’t watch anything on a regular basis – I tend to binge-watch things.
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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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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 think that nerds, if you want to call them that, have only gotten more hip and assimilated into the culture.
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