Velvet Elvis never puts on weight.
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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When I go to my live shows it’s often a multigenerational audience, a family bonding experience.
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And then I’ll try and arrange them in a way that they would tell a semi-cohesive story.
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Sometimes I get, “Have you ever thought about doing real music?” I like to think the music I do is real, it just happens to be funny.
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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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Until you came along I never dated anyone this low on the food chain.
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If something is good enough, it can be out there and people will see it.
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So that’s why one of my rules of parody writing is that it’s gotta be funny regardless of whether you know the source material. It has to work on its own merit.
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You can play some schlock like New Kids On the Block.
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My velvet Elvis means the world to me. Although he may not be worth much dough, he means more to me than some old Rembrandt or Van Gogh.
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I’m still a geek on the inside, that’s the important thing.
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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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I tend to enunciate pretty well. It’s always seemed that my voice is one of those voices that people can recognize pretty easily – which has been a bit of a drawback for some characters.
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When I swore that you’re getting more and more beautiful everyday. Well, I was only kidding, honey.
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I think that nerds, if you want to call them that, have only gotten more hip and assimilated into the culture.
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I don’t think there are any new media I’d like to cover.
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As much as people are griping about the Internet taking sales away from artists, it’s been a huge promotional tool for me.
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That’s a big part of my life – doing things that I’m not prepared to do.
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I have a long-standing history of respecting artists’ wishes.
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As a wise man once said, “April Fools Day is for amateurs. You NEVER need an excuse to mess with people’s heads.”
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About four or five months ago, at a dinner in New York, John made the very nice offer of my being guest editor for an issue of MAD and I thought about it for about half a nanosecond and decided that was a pretty good idea.
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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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Whereas if I wrote a movie script, chances are better than even that I’d just be another guy in L.A. with a movie script in his drawer.
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Didn’t have Nintendo, we just poured salt on snails.
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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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My brothers and sisters hated me because I was an only child.
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I’m very analytical, I’m very precise.
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