So then why get upset if somebody like me Tries to look at the world just a bit differently?
AL YANKOVICI start with a comprehensive list of all the recent songs that have been big hits – and then I go down that list and see if I can come up with funny ideas for them. I can always come up with ideas, but not necessarily good ones!
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And then I’ll try and arrange them in a way that they would tell a semi-cohesive story.
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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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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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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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You don’t need to be defined by your job.
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I am not making this up. Needless to say, as soon as I discovered that, I gave up meat entirely.
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I do original songs in the style of other artists, where I try to learn all their musical idiosyncrasies and try to do something that sounds like them and yet is a bit more sick and twisted.
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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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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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Doing things that I don’t know how to do, and keep doing them until I get good at them.
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I know now that everything I write, I’m going to put out, and I’ll have to live with it for the rest of my life.
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Buy our album, were Nirvana, a garage band from Seattle. Well, it sure beats raising cattle.
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I don’t watch anything on a regular basis – I tend to binge-watch things.
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In the ’80s, I was the only game in town, I was the only one getting that kind of exposure in any rotation on MTV.
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Velvet Elvis never puts on weight.
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