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 YANKOVICBoys like Peter are afraid of alot of things, like nuclear annihilation and flunking algebra, but they’re not afraid of wolves.
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People that were a little nerdy in high school would look up to me and know it gets better.
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No Joni Mitchell 8 track tapes in my car.
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I’ll be mellow when I’m dead.
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I like the guitar-driven music of Nirvana at its peak. At that point, I thought there was a lot of really exciting music coming out.
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You make me wanna staple bagels to my face, then remove them with a pitchfork.
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People say releasing an album is like giving birth, but it’s more like having a gallbladder operation.
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Not any specific one, but I was a huge fan of Frank Jacobs, I guess he wrote the plurality of the song parodies for MAD, Sam Hart, a few others, but that was also where I was first exposed to the art form of song parodies.
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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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You got me stranded on the bungee tower of love.
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I do a lot of different things, sometimes at the same time, and it’s very difficult to figure out where I fit.
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Right now I’m listening to a lot of Top 40 music, because THAT’S MY JOB.
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That’s something the kids should know about. Reading is a gateway to witchcraft and lesbianism.
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He died a long painful death. However, you’ll be happy to hear that just a few years later he was reincarnated as Shirley MacLaine.
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Because you’re supposed to lose yourself in the character, but sometimes people look at a character and go “Oh, it’s ‘Weird Al.'”
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A lot of artists have really been supportive over the years.
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