It becomes more important to me as time goes on to make every album the best thing I’ve ever done, so it’s a lot of self-imposed pressure that also kind of slows me down a bit.
AL YANKOVICDoing things that I don’t know how to do, and keep doing them until I get good at them.
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He put Ben Gay inside my jock strap and filled my tooth paste tube up with glue.
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You don’t need to be defined by your job.
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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 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 try not to go the obvious route all the time, but sometimes the most obvious is actually the best.
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I don’t like to label myself. I know I’m very hard to pigeonhole.
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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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You fake something until you’re good at it.
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People say releasing an album is like giving birth, but it’s more like having a gallbladder operation.
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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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I always try to put myself out of my comfort zone and out of my depth, and hopefully somewhere along the line I’ll catch up.
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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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After that, I made the decision to headline no matter what, even if I was playing to seven people. I wanted people to be there to see me.
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Velvet Elvis never puts on weight.
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My process for the parodies is that I get an idea for a song and then get approval from the artist and then go in and record it and probably try to get it out as soon as possible.
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