Some people want to advertise their weirdness, and spread it out, that’s not me.
AL YANKOVICVelvet Elvis never puts on weight.
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So that was a joke that I continue up to this very day.
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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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How can you get bored if the audience is cheering and laughing at something you’re doing?
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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 think that nerds, if you want to call them that, have only gotten more hip and assimilated into the culture.
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I like the guitar-driven music of Nirvana at its peak. At that point, I thought there was a lot of really exciting music coming out.
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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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My wife went off with Elvis.
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I don’t want to hear about this train being derailed! What happened to ‘The Flintstones’?’
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You fake something until you’re good at it.
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It becomes more important to me as time goes on to make every album the best thing I’ve ever done, so it’s a lot of self-imposed pressure that also kind of slows me down a bit.
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I start with a comprehensive list of all the recent songs that have been big hits – and then I go down that list and see if I can come up with funny ideas for them. I can always come up with ideas, but not necessarily good ones!
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When I swore that you’re getting more and more beautiful everyday. Well, I was only kidding, honey.
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A lot of rap songs don’t usually have a lot of melody per se.
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By the time I’m in the studio recording my parody, 10,000 parodies of that song are on YouTube.
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