It’s hard to really articulate what the parameters are that make one song parody-able and another song not, but if I can come up with a good enough idea for it, I go for it, and if not, then I have to move on.
AL YANKOVICThat’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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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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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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You fake something until you’re good at it.
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I mean, I hate to gloat, but I’m extremely satisfied with my position in life and the way things have worked out for me.
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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.
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I don’t think there are any new media I’d like to cover.
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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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I can bend paper clips into the shapes of small animals.
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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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How can you get bored if the audience is cheering and laughing at something you’re doing?
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They do everything from gangsta rap to polka music and every genre in between. It’s amazing.
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Didn’t have Nintendo, we just poured salt on snails.
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In the ’80s, I was putting out an album virtually every year, I think mostly based on fear – that if I didn’t, people would soon forget about me.
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I’m very analytical, I’m very precise. I mean, I don’t write for kids.
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