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.
AL YANKOVICPeople say releasing an album is like giving birth, but it’s more like having a gallbladder operation.
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Buy our album, were Nirvana, a garage band from Seattle. Well, it sure beats raising cattle.
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I always try to put myself out of my comfort zone and out of my depth, and hopefully somewhere along the line I’ll catch up.
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There are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for parody, yet I can’t think of a clever enough idea.
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I can bend paper clips into the shapes of small animals.
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I’ve always enjoyed animation and voiceover work. That’s something that I’ve been proactive about.
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You make me wanna staple bagels to my face, then remove them with a pitchfork.
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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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I’ll bet every great thinker and leader we’ve got Could see all kinds of things other people could not!
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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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A lot of rap songs don’t usually have a lot of melody per se.
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You got me stranded on the bungee tower of love.
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So then why get upset if somebody like me Tries to look at the world just a bit differently?
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Some songs are too repetitive for me to be able to fashion a humorous set of lyrics around. Some songs flat-out just don’t work creatively for me.
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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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I’m always a little leery about doing shows where I’m not the headliner because when I first started playing in 1982 I opened for Missing Persons and got pelted for 45 minutes.
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