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.
AL YANKOVICI’m obviously not a rapper, and I don’t have any claims to be one, really.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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I don’t think there are any new media I’d like to cover.
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It’s hard to force creativity and humor.
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Sometimes I get, “Have you ever thought about doing real music?” I like to think the music I do is real, it just happens to be funny.
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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 got me stranded on the bungee tower of love.
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Take down those naked pictures of Ernest Borgnine.
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When I swore that you’re getting more and more beautiful everyday. Well, I was only kidding, honey.
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Whenever I do a parody it’s not meant to make you hate anybody’s music really.
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There are probably a few library fines I haven’t paid yet, but I’m a pretty clean-cut guy overall.
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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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I don’t watch a lot of other people’s parodies because I don’t want to be unduly influenced.
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So that’s why one of my rules of parody writing is that it’s gotta be funny regardless of whether you know the source material. It has to work on its own merit.
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I did have a child, and I was reading a lot of picture books to her, but at the same time writing a children’s book was something that I’d been wanting to do for many years, pretty much since the start of my career.
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I cut my teeth playing rock songs on the accordion when I was a teenager and my friends always thought that was extremely amusing.
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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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