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.
AL YANKOVICMy brothers and sisters hated me because I was an only child.
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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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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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That’s something the kids should know about. Reading is a gateway to witchcraft and lesbianism.
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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 was abducted by some aliens from space who kind a looked like Jamie Farr.
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My brothers and sisters hated me because I was an only child.
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It doesn’t take a military genius to see we’ll all be crispy critters after World War III.
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I like the guitar-driven music of Nirvana at its peak. At that point, I thought there was a lot of really exciting music coming out.
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People that were a little nerdy in high school would look up to me and know it gets better.
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You slammed my face down on the barbecue grill, now my scars are all healing, but my heart never will.
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My personal taste doesn’t enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.
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You still have Top 40 radio now, but it’s 40 different stations. There aren’t many hits that everybody knows, and there aren’t many real superstars.
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So I’m one of the few celebrities that got to do a repeat performance on ‘The Simpsons,’ which I’m very flattered by.
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Right now I’m listening to a lot of Top 40 music, because THAT’S MY JOB.
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You got me stranded on the bungee tower of love.
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