I suppose I had my rock star fantasies while I was singing into my hairbrush in the bathroom mirror, but I never really consciously said, ‘OK, this is what I’m going to do for a living and I’m going to be Weird Al.’
AL YANKOVICEvery night for dinner we had a big chunk of dirt.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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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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Then I try to come up with ideas for parodies. And 99% of those ideas are horrible.
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It’s very much a “Weird Al” themed issue, so I’d like to think that there’s a lot of “Weird Al” flavor throughout but I think it’d be generous really to call me an editor.
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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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If something is good enough, it can be out there and people will see it.
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I’m very analytical, I’m very precise. I mean, I don’t write for kids.
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Every night for dinner we had a big chunk of dirt.
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One of the hardest things I’ve had to deal with in my career is keeping my material topical even though I only release albums every three or four years.
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I don’t watch anything on a regular basis – I tend to binge-watch things.
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I’m stranded all alone in the gas station of love, and I have to use the self service pump.
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So I try not to pick songs that I know would drive me crazy.
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Didn’t have Nintendo, we just poured salt on snails.
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On the other hand, I can get all the Metallica songs I want for FREE! WOW!
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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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I don’t really look at myself as the kind of person who craves attention, but I’ve never been to therapy so there’s probably a lot of stuff about myself that I don’t know.
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