I think that nerds, if you want to call them that, have only gotten more hip and assimilated into the culture.
AL YANKOVICI’ll be mellow when I’m dead.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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It’s hard to force creativity and humor.
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Kind of wish I was dead. Maybe, I’ll blow my brains out, mama, or maybe I’ll go bowling.
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There are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for parody, yet I can’t think of a clever enough idea.
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I don’t watch anything on a regular basis – I tend to binge-watch things.
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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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My brothers and sisters hated me because I was an only child.
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I tend to enunciate pretty well. It’s always seemed that my voice is one of those voices that people can recognize pretty easily – which has been a bit of a drawback for some characters.
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Like, I have had moments, which I think most people have, where you’ll be watching TV, and it’ll be interrupted by some tragic event, and you’ll actually find yourself thinking,
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I always try to put myself out of my comfort zone and out of my depth, and hopefully somewhere along the line I’ll catch up.
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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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The music has always been my bread and butter, and I’ve focused more of my attention on that.
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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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After that, I made the decision to headline no matter what, even if I was playing to seven people. I wanted people to be there to see me.
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Didn’t have Nintendo, we just poured salt on snails.
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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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