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So then why get upset if somebody like me Tries to look at the world just a bit differently?

Al Yankovic

People say releasing an album is like giving birth, but it’s more like having a gallbladder operation.
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Album Birth Give Operation People
That’s something the kids should know about. Reading is a gateway to witchcraft and lesbianism.
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Gateway Kid Lesbian Read Something Witchcraft
Pop culture’s gotten much more disposable.
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Culture Disposable More Pop Gotten
Not only are they just great, nice guys; they’re some of the best musicians you’re likely to find.
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Best Find Great Guy Just Likely Musician Nice Some
Sometimes I get, “Have you ever thought about doing real music?” I like to think the music I do is real, it just happens to be funny.
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Funny Happen Music Real Sometimes Think Thought
A lot of my cartoon voices are basically just variations on my natural voice.
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Basic Cartoon Natural Variation Voice
There’s a lot of different ways that a song would be a challenge to parody.
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Arm Challenge Clever Different Fashion Lot Parody Sign Song
I enjoy all kinds of music. But it is kind of strange when I do parodies, instead of setting up drums and guitar amps.
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Appreciate Enjoy Favorite Gitar Kind Music Personal Set Strange Well
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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Along Catch Comfort Hopefully Somewhere Try
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
You make me wanna staple bagels to my face, then remove them with a pitchfork.
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Bagel Face Pitchfork Remove Staple Wanna
I suppose I had my rock star fantasies while I was singing into my hairbrush in the bathroom mirror, but I never really consciously said, ‘OK, this is what I’m going to do for a living and I’m going to be Weird Al.’
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Bathroom Fantastic Go Hairbrush Live Mirror OK Rock Sing Star Suppose Weird
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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Album Best Done Go Important Next Self Thing Time
I like to think that I’ve gotten better at what I do. I spend more time and pay more attention to detail album after album. But pretty much it’s stayed the same.
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Ablum Album Attention Better Detail Gotten More Pay Spend Think Time
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
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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Character Look People Sometimes Suppose Weird Yourself

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