It’s hard to force creativity and humor.
AL YANKOVICThat’s a big part of my life – doing things that I’m not prepared to do.
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Like, I have had moments, which I think most people have, where you’ll be watching TV, and it’ll be interrupted by some tragic event, and you’ll actually find yourself thinking,
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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 don’t watch anything on a regular basis – I tend to binge-watch things.
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He died a long painful death. However, you’ll be happy to hear that just a few years later he was reincarnated as Shirley MacLaine.
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What kind of morons do you have working at newspapers in Austin that would base an entire review of an artist’s performance on whether or not they had a good seat?
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Doing things that I don’t know how to do, and keep doing them until I get good at them.
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Whenever I do a parody it’s not meant to make you hate anybody’s music really.
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You don’t need to be defined by your job.
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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 obviously not a rapper, and I don’t have any claims to be one, really.
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Ever since the day you left me, I’ve been so miserable, my dear. I feel almost as bad as I did when you were still here.
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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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It’s hard to say, I picked one of my favorite articles for the MAD vault. Which is one of the features of the Magazine so they don’t have to actually pay artists or writers to come up with new stuff.
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The window doesn’t open, the fan is broke, and my face is turning blue. I haven’t been in a crowd like this since I went to see the Who.
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My personal taste doesn’t enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.
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