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 YANKOVICEver since the day you left me, I’ve been so miserable, my dear. I feel almost as bad as I did when you were still here.
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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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You slammed my face down on the barbecue grill, now my scars are all healing, but my heart never will.
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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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I have very mixed feelings about it. On one hand, I’m concerned that the rampant downloading of my copyright-protected material over the Internet is severely eating into my album sales and having a decidedly adverse effect on my career.
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Then I try to come up with ideas for parodies. And 99% of those ideas are horrible.
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On the other hand, I can get all the Metallica songs I want for FREE! WOW!
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Many years ago I found out something about hamburgers that really grossed me out. You may not know this, so I hope I don’t make you sick, but it turns out hamburgers are actually made out of dead cows.
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That’s something the kids should know about. Reading is a gateway to witchcraft and lesbianism.
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If I could find the right kind of property, get tied in with the right movie, I’d love to be involved, but I just find it hard to be motivated to do another screenplay right now.
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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,
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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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My hobbies just sort of gradually became my vocation.
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It’s hard to force creativity and humor.
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Kind of wish I was dead. Maybe, I’ll blow my brains out, mama, or maybe I’ll go bowling.
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People never ask people doing serious music, ‘Do you ever think about doing funny music?’
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