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.
AL YANKOVICI suppose I had my rock star fantasies while I was singing into my hairbrush in the bathroom mirror, but I never really consciously said, ‘OK, this is what I’m going to do for a living and I’m going to be Weird Al.’
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I’m just a no-good, scum sucking, nose picking, boot licking, sniveling, groveling, worthless hunk of slime.
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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 don’t like to label myself. I know I’m very hard to pigeonhole.
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It’s hard to say, I picked one of my favorite articles for the MAD vault. Which is one of the features of the Magazine so they don’t have to actually pay artists or writers to come up with new stuff.
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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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A lot of artists have really been supportive over the years.
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I was abducted by some aliens from space who kind a looked like Jamie Farr.
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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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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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Every night for dinner we had a big chunk of dirt.
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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 like to think that I’ve gotten better at what I do. I spend more time and pay more attention to detail album after album. But pretty much it’s stayed the same.
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So I’m one of the few celebrities that got to do a repeat performance on ‘The Simpsons,’ which I’m very flattered by.
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People never ask people doing serious music, ‘Do you ever think about doing funny music?’
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I’ve learned how to use my spam filter pretty effectively.
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