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One 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.

Al Yankovic

People never ask people doing serious music, ‘Do you ever think about doing funny music?’
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Do Funny Music People Serious Think
I’m an ugly girl, My face makes you hurl, Sad I have it, I should bag it. Acne everywhere, Unwanted facial hair. I’m a relation to Frankenstein’s creation.
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Acne Bag Everywhere Facial Girl Hair Make Ugly Unwanted
There’s a lot of different ways that a song would be a challenge to parody.
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Arm Challenge Clever Different Fashion Lot Parody Sign Song
Kind of wish I was dead. Maybe, I’ll blow my brains out, mama, or maybe I’ll go bowling.
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Blow Brain Kind Mama Maybe Suicide Wish
Buy our album, were Nirvana, a garage band from Seattle. Well, it sure beats raising cattle.
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Album Band Bet Cattle Garage Nirvana Our Raise Seattle Sure
Some songs are too repetitive for me to be able to fashion a humorous set of lyrics around. Some songs flat-out just don’t work creatively for me.
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Around Creatively Humorous Lyric Repetitive Some Song
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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Able Instead Moment More Release Song Think Timely Topical War
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.
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Album Best Done Go Important Next Self Thing Time
Not only are they just great, nice guys; they’re some of the best musicians you’re likely to find.
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Best Find Great Guy Just Likely Musician Nice Some
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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Decision Even Headline Made Matter People Play Seven Want
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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Artist Attention Austin Kind More Music
Every night for dinner we had a big chunk of dirt.
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Big Chunk Dinner Dirt Every Night Reality
Boys like Peter are afraid of alot of things, like nuclear annihilation and flunking algebra, but they’re not afraid of wolves.
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Afraid Algebra Animation Boy Flunking Like Lot Nuclear Thing Wolf
My wife went off with Elvis.
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Off Went Wife
If something is good enough, it can be out there and people will see it.
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Enough Good People See Something
I have a long-standing history of respecting artists’ wishes.
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History Long Respect Stand Wish

One 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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