I was able to come up with a couple articles for the magazine, I was able to solicit help from a bunch of my friends to contribute pieces: Patton Oswalt, Seth Green, Emo Phillips, Chris Hardwick, John Hodgman, and more.
AL YANKOVICSometimes 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.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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No Joni Mitchell 8 track tapes in my car.
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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 decided that I wanted to be a voice on every animated cartoon in the history of the world – even shows that haven’t been on the air for a very long time, that’s going to be harder to pull off.
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I was abducted by some aliens from space who kind a looked like Jamie Farr.
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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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The irony is of course that my career has lasted a whole lot longer than some of the people I’ve parodied over the years.
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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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A lot of my cartoon voices are basically just variations on my natural voice.
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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.
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I’ll bet every great thinker and leader we’ve got Could see all kinds of things other people could not!
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I’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.
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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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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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Some people want to advertise their weirdness, and spread it out, that’s not me.
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I am not making this up. Needless to say, as soon as I discovered that, I gave up meat entirely.
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