I can bend paper clips into the shapes of small animals.
AL YANKOVICI can bend paper clips into the shapes of small animals.
AL YANKOVICIf money can’t buy happiness, then I guess I’ll have to rent it.
AL YANKOVICI’ve always enjoyed animation and voiceover work. That’s something that I’ve been proactive about.
AL YANKOVICA lot of rap songs don’t usually have a lot of melody per se.
AL YANKOVICUntil you came along I never dated anyone this low on the food chain.
AL YANKOVICI’m a music fan, and I can listen to the radio, or music, without thinking, “How am I going to screw this up?” [Laughs] If I’m really actively trying to think of a parody, then I’ll have my antenna out, and be a little more proactive about it.
AL YANKOVICAs it turns out, there is a thing called the Internet, and stuff does go out there whether the suits like it or not.
AL YANKOVICI enjoy all kinds of music. But it is kind of strange when I do parodies, instead of setting up drums and guitar amps.
AL YANKOVICIn fact, when I come up with an idea for a parody I try to resist the urge to Google the idea to see if someone has done it already because the answer is almost always, “Yes, of course they have, they’ve thought of it!”
AL YANKOVICVelvet Elvis never puts on weight.
AL YANKOVICSome 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.
AL YANKOVICI am not making this up. Needless to say, as soon as I discovered that, I gave up meat entirely.
AL YANKOVICIn 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.
AL YANKOVICAnd then I’ll try and arrange them in a way that they would tell a semi-cohesive story.
AL YANKOVICSo 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.
AL YANKOVICThere’s enough people that do unfunny music. I’ll leave the serious stuff to Paris Hilton and Kevin Federline.
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