I’m very analytical, I’m very precise.
AL YANKOVICWell I’ve made no secret of my life long love of MAD Magazine, it’s probably my first and greatest influence in terms of my comic sensibilities. I’ve known John [Ficarra] for many years, and we’ve been friends.
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Because you’re supposed to lose yourself in the character, but sometimes people look at a character and go “Oh, it’s ‘Weird Al.'”
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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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Take down those naked pictures of Ernest Borgnine.
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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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I try to pick songs that I actually like because I realize that I have to live with these songs for a long time, from when I’m working on them in the studio to possibly playing them onstage for the rest of my life.
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You make me wanna staple bagels to my face, then remove them with a pitchfork.
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I don’t watch a lot of other people’s parodies because I don’t want to be unduly influenced.
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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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I don’t like to label myself. I know I’m very hard to pigeonhole.
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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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Then I try to come up with ideas for parodies. And 99% of those ideas are horrible.
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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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It’s hard to force creativity and humor.
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It was difficult to get into my friends’ rock bands when I was a teenager.
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At this point I’ve got a bit of a track record. So people realize that when ‘Weird Al’ wants to go parody, it’s not meant to make them look bad… it’s meant to be a tribute.
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