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,
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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I love the way they run in fright when I turn on the kitchen light. And when I squish them on the ground, they make a pleasant crunchy sound.
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You can play some schlock like New Kids On the Block.
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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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I don’t really look at myself as the kind of person who craves attention, but I’ve never been to therapy so there’s probably a lot of stuff about myself that I don’t know.
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I’m just a no-good, scum sucking, nose picking, boot licking, sniveling, groveling, worthless hunk of slime.
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After that, I made the decision to headline no matter what, even if I was playing to seven people. I wanted people to be there to see me.
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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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If something is good enough, it can be out there and people will see 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’m still a geek on the inside, that’s the important thing.
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I mean, I hate to gloat, but I’m extremely satisfied with my position in life and the way things have worked out for me.
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And then I’ll try and arrange them in a way that they would tell a semi-cohesive story.
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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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Until you came along I never dated anyone this low on the food chain.
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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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