As 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.
AL YANKOVICI 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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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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As it turns out, there is a thing called the Internet, and stuff does go out there whether the suits like it or not.
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You still have Top 40 radio now, but it’s 40 different stations. There aren’t many hits that everybody knows, and there aren’t many real superstars.
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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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There’s a lot of different ways that a song would be a challenge to parody.
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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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Many years ago I found out something about hamburgers that really grossed me out. You may not know this, so I hope I don’t make you sick, but it turns out hamburgers are actually made out of dead cows.
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So then why get upset if somebody like me Tries to look at the world just a bit differently?
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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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It becomes more important to me as time goes on to make every album the best thing I’ve ever done, so it’s a lot of self-imposed pressure that also kind of slows me down a bit.
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I’m just a no-good, scum sucking, nose picking, boot licking, sniveling, groveling, worthless hunk of slime.
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I’m known for being an up, high-energy, and optimistic kind of guy.
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They do everything from gangsta rap to polka music and every genre in between. It’s amazing.
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I’m still a geek on the inside, that’s the important thing.
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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.’
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