It fit pretty nicely into my schedule because we’d pretty much finished the bulk of promotion for Mandatory Fun and were just getting geared up for the World Tour so this was a nice time for me to be working on it.
AL YANKOVICRight now I’m listening to a lot of Top 40 music, because THAT’S MY JOB.
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Whereas if I wrote a movie script, chances are better than even that I’d just be another guy in L.A. with a movie script in his drawer.
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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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I make charts of songs that are good candidates, good targets, so to speak.
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When I was a kid, I thought I was going to be an architect, because when I was 12 years old I had a guidance counselor that convinced me that that was the best career choice for me.
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What kind of morons do you have working at newspapers in Austin that would base an entire review of an artist’s performance on whether or not they had a good seat?
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You still have Top 40 radio now, but it’s 40 different stations. There aren’t many hits that everybody knows, and there aren’t many real superstars.
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You fake something until you’re good at it.
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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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Didn’t have Nintendo, we just poured salt on snails.
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My hobbies just sort of gradually became my vocation.
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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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I’m very analytical, I’m very precise. I mean, I don’t write for kids.
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I have very mixed feelings about it. On one hand, I’m concerned that the rampant downloading of my copyright-protected material over the Internet is severely eating into my album sales and having a decidedly adverse effect on my career.
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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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