My wife went off with Elvis.
AL YANKOVICI’m obviously not a rapper, and I don’t have any claims to be one, really.
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I’ll be mellow when I’m dead.
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It’s hard to force creativity and humor.
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Somebody will come up to me after a show and have me sign their arm, and the next time I see them my autograph has been permanently inscribed on their arm.
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There’s a lot of different ways that a song would be a challenge to parody.
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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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You can play some schlock like New Kids On the Block.
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The window doesn’t open, the fan is broke, and my face is turning blue. I haven’t been in a crowd like this since I went to see the Who.
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It’s hard to really articulate what the parameters are that make one song parody-able and another song not, but if I can come up with a good enough idea for it, I go for it, and if not, then I have to move on.
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I don’t like to label myself. I know I’m very hard to pigeonhole.
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Now with internet culture it seems like everyone is doing music parodies. And they’re not all good!
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I 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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I think that was the genesis of my polka medleys, because every rock song I played on the accordion just sounded like a polka and my friends thought it was funny.
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If I could find the right kind of property, get tied in with the right movie, I’d love to be involved, but I just find it hard to be motivated to do another screenplay right now.
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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’m still a geek on the inside, that’s the important thing.
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