I was a huge fan of ‘Mad’ magazine when I was 11, 12, 13 years old. I’d scour used bookstores trying to find back issues, and I’d wait at the newsstand for a new issue to come out. My life revolved around it.
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More Al Yankovic Quotes
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I’ve always known that if I recorded an album, it would come out, and people would enjoy it!
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I think my chances of ever making it into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame are about as good as Milli Vanilli’s.
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My wife went off with Elvis.
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By the time I’m in the studio recording my parody, 10,000 parodies of that song are on YouTube.
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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 mean, I hate to gloat, but I’m extremely satisfied with my position in life and the way things have worked out for me.
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So I try not to pick songs that I know would drive me crazy.
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I’m free to do what I please, I’m probably not going to do albums. Just because I think releasing tracks as singles is a better way for me to stay topical.
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I don’t want to hear about this train being derailed! What happened to ‘The Flintstones’?’
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You fake something until you’re good at it.
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I make charts of songs that are good candidates, good targets, so to speak.
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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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I’m very analytical, I’m very precise. I mean, I don’t write for kids.
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I don’t like to label myself. I know I’m very hard to pigeonhole.
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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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