I dated Siamese twins, I slept with Big Foot, too. Get me on Sally Jesse, put me on Donahue.
AL YANKOVICI 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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So that was a joke that I continue up to this very day.
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If money can’t buy happiness, then I guess I’ll have to rent it.
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I’d like to be able to be more topical and timely and more of-the-moment and I think the way to do that is, instead of waiting until I have twelve songs to release all at once, just to release them as I come up with them.
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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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I can’t get too offended when somebody parodies me.
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A lot of artists have really been supportive over the years.
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I don’t like to label myself. I know I’m very hard to pigeonhole.
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So I try not to pick songs that I know would drive me crazy.
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Probably 90 percent of my albums have polka medleys.
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Until you came along I never dated anyone this low on the food chain.
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I don’t want to hear about this train being derailed! What happened to ‘The Flintstones’?’
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I do original songs in the style of other artists, where I try to learn all their musical idiosyncrasies and try to do something that sounds like them and yet is a bit more sick and twisted.
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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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The irony is of course that my career has lasted a whole lot longer than some of the people I’ve parodied over the years.
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I’m an ugly girl, My face makes you hurl, Sad I have it, I should bag it. Acne everywhere, Unwanted facial hair. I’m a relation to Frankenstein’s creation.
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