Whenever I do a parody it’s not meant to make you hate anybody’s music really.
AL YANKOVICOne of the hardest things I’ve had to deal with in my career is keeping my material topical even though I only release albums every three or four years.
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No Joni Mitchell 8 track tapes in my car.
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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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Nows the time to go for all the gusto you can grab. You’ll have plenty of time to be low-key when you’re laid out on the slab.
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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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You can play some schlock like New Kids On the Block.
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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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There aren’t that many superstars around anymore.
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I’m known for being an up, high-energy, and optimistic kind of guy.
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I’m very analytical, I’m very precise.
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If money can’t buy happiness, then I guess I’ll have to rent it.
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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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Maybe I’ll make a huge color tapestry from my belly button lint.
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I do original songs in the style of other artists, where I try to learn all their musical idiosyncrasies and try to do something that sounds like them and yet is a bit more sick and twisted.
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I did have a child, and I was reading a lot of picture books to her, but at the same time writing a children’s book was something that I’d been wanting to do for many years, pretty much since the start of my career.
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