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I don’t like to label myself. I know I’m very hard to pigeonhole.

Al Yankovic

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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Actual Life Long Onstage Pick Possible Realize Rest Song Studio Time Work
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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Cut Fine Guy Library Overall Paid Pretty Probably
So that’s why one of my rules of parody writing is that it’s gotta be funny regardless of whether you know the source material. It has to work on its own merit.
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Funny Gotta Know Material Merit Parody Regard Rule Source Write
He put Ben Gay inside my jock strap and filled my tooth paste tube up with glue.
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Gay Inside Jock Paste Revenge Strap Tooth Tube
I was abducted by some aliens from space who kind a looked like Jamie Farr.
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Abuduct Fair Kind Look Space
My personal taste doesn’t enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.
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Book Decison Enetr Parody Personal Read
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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Early Enough Feel Fortunate Gangsta Good Nice Rap Think Very
Midget wrestling on channel 3, it costs me 50 bucks a month.
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Buck Channel Midget Month Wres
If you want to avoid heated arguments, never discuss religion, politics, or whether the toilet paper roll should go over or under.
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Avoid Discuss Heat Paper Political Politics Religion Toilet
When I swore that you’re getting more and more beautiful everyday. Well, I was only kidding, honey.
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Beautiful Everyday Honesty Kid More
Boys like Peter are afraid of alot of things, like nuclear annihilation and flunking algebra, but they’re not afraid of wolves.
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Afraid Algebra Animation Boy Flunking Like Lot Nuclear Thing Wolf
My wife went off with Elvis.
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Off Went Wife
I make charts of songs that are good candidates, good targets, so to speak.
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Candidate Chart Good Idea Song Speak Target Try
I don’t want to hear about this train being derailed! What happened to ‘The Flintstones’?’
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Cartoon Derail Happen Hear Train Want
I think that was the genesis of my polka medleys, because every rock song I played on the accordion just sounded like a polka and my friends thought it was funny.
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Friend Funny Genesis Medley Polka Rock Song Soun Think
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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Around Bookstore Fan Find Huge Issue Life Magazine Old Scour Revolve

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