I like to think that I’ve gotten better at what I do. I spend more time and pay more attention to detail album after album. But pretty much it’s stayed the same.
AL YANKOVICIn the ’80s, I was the only game in town, I was the only one getting that kind of exposure in any rotation on MTV.
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In the ’80s, I was the only game in town, I was the only one getting that kind of exposure in any rotation on MTV.
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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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No Joni Mitchell 8 track tapes in my car.
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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.
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As a kid, I certainly never thought I would get to spend my life doing something fun.
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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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There are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for parody, yet I can’t think of a clever enough idea.
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I don’t want to hear about this train being derailed! What happened to ‘The Flintstones’?’
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He died a long painful death. However, you’ll be happy to hear that just a few years later he was reincarnated as Shirley MacLaine.
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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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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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When I go to my live shows it’s often a multigenerational audience, a family bonding experience.
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Buy our album, were Nirvana, a garage band from Seattle. Well, it sure beats raising cattle.
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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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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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