I’m very analytical, I’m very precise. I mean, I don’t write for kids.
AL YANKOVICI don’t want to pooh-pooh modern pop. I appreciate that as well, but my personal favorite kind of music is guitar-based rock. I like grunge and garage bands and alternative music, but that’s more my personal taste.
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One of my pet peeves is that sometimes the talents of my band get overlooked because, and it was the same problem that Frank Zappa had, with a lot of groups that use humor, people don’t realize there’s a lot of craft behind the comedy.
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I was a huge fan of ‘Mad’ magazine when I was 11, 12, 13 years old. I’d scour used bookstores trying to find back issues, and I’d wait at the newsstand for a new issue to come out. My life revolved around it.
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I’m just a no-good, scum sucking, nose picking, boot licking, sniveling, groveling, worthless hunk of slime.
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I do original songs in the style of other artists, where I try to learn all their musical idiosyncrasies and try to do something that sounds like them and yet is a bit more sick and twisted.
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I’ve done a movie and a TV series, and someday I’d like to do a successful movie and a successful TV series. That would be nice.
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I do a lot of different things, sometimes at the same time, and it’s very difficult to figure out where I fit.
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I can’t say enough good things about my band. I feel very fortunate that I found them when I did, very early in my career.
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I don’t think there are any new media I’d like to cover.
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It was difficult to get into my friends’ rock bands when I was a teenager.
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The music has always been my bread and butter, and I’ve focused more of my attention on that.
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I don’t really look at myself as the kind of person who craves attention, but I’ve never been to therapy so there’s probably a lot of stuff about myself that I don’t know.
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I’m obviously not a rapper, and I don’t have any claims to be one, really.
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Maybe I’ll make a huge color tapestry from my belly button lint.
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I dated Siamese twins, I slept with Big Foot, too. Get me on Sally Jesse, put me on Donahue.
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I’m watching the charts every week and hoping something will pop into my head.
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