Boys like Peter are afraid of alot of things, like nuclear annihilation and flunking algebra, but they’re not afraid of wolves.
AL YANKOVICRight now I’m listening to a lot of Top 40 music, because THAT’S MY JOB.
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I’m obviously not a rapper, and I don’t have any claims to be one, really.
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Beans, beans, the magic legumes – the more you ingest, the more you consume.
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Then I try to come up with ideas for parodies. And 99% of those ideas are horrible.
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Velvet Elvis never puts on weight.
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Ever since the day you left me, I’ve been so miserable, my dear. I feel almost as bad as I did when you were still here.
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I write and write and write, and then I edit it down to the parts that I think are amusing, or that help the storyline, or I’ll write a notebook full of ideas of anecdotes or story points.
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I’m always a little leery about doing shows where I’m not the headliner because when I first started playing in 1982 I opened for Missing Persons and got pelted for 45 minutes.
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So I try not to pick songs that I know would drive me crazy.
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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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That’s something the kids should know about. Reading is a gateway to witchcraft and lesbianism.
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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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My personal taste doesn’t enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.
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I’ll be mellow when I’m dead.
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I can’t get too offended when somebody parodies me.
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I’d like to be able to be more topical and timely and more of-the-moment and I think the way to do that is, instead of waiting until I have twelve songs to release all at once, just to release them as I come up with them.
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