I’ve always known that if I recorded an album, it would come out, and people would enjoy it!
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 do a lot of different things, sometimes at the same time, and it’s very difficult to figure out where I fit.
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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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Got a brand new semi-automatic weapon with a laser sight. Oh, I’m praying that somebody tries to break in here tonight.
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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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There’s a lot of different ways that a song would be a challenge to parody.
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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 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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A lot of artists have really been supportive over the years.
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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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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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And then I’ll try and arrange them in a way that they would tell a semi-cohesive story.
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I’ve done a movie and a TV series, and someday I’d like to do a successful movie and a successful TV series. That would be nice.
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I don’t want to hear about this train being derailed! What happened to ‘The Flintstones’?’
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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 very analytical, I’m very precise.
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