Right now I’m listening to a lot of Top 40 music, because THAT’S MY JOB.
AL YANKOVICI’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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In the ’80s, I was the only game in town, I was the only one getting that kind of exposure in any rotation on MTV.
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A lot of artists have really been supportive over the years.
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Many years ago I found out something about hamburgers that really grossed me out. You may not know this, so I hope I don’t make you sick, but it turns out hamburgers are actually made out of dead cows.
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They do everything from gangsta rap to polka music and every genre in between. It’s amazing.
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Some people want to advertise their weirdness, and spread it out, that’s not me.
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I’m free to do what I please, I’m probably not going to do albums. Just because I think releasing tracks as singles is a better way for me to stay topical.
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I 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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If something is good enough, it can be out there and people will see it.
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I’m watching the charts every week and hoping something will pop into my head.
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Every night for dinner we had a big chunk of dirt.
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I did have a child, and I was reading a lot of picture books to her, but at the same time writing a children’s book was something that I’d been wanting to do for many years, pretty much since the start of my career.
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No Joni Mitchell 8 track tapes in my car.
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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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Left all my Beatle records out in the sun, got a coke bottle stuck on the end of my tongue.
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I’d rather clean all the bathrooms in Grand Central Station with my tongue than spend one more minute with you.
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