In the ’80s, I was putting out an album virtually every year, I think mostly based on fear – that if I didn’t, people would soon forget about me.
AL YANKOVICI 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.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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Take down those naked pictures of Ernest Borgnine.
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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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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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I knew we were having problems when you put those piranhas in my bathtub again.
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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 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 don’t watch a lot of other people’s parodies because I don’t want to be unduly influenced.
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I know I’m a million times as humble as thou art!
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I’d rather clean all the bathrooms in Grand Central Station with my tongue than spend one more minute with you.
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If money can’t buy happiness, then I guess I’ll have to rent it.
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I’m stranded all alone in the gas station of love, and I have to use the self service pump.
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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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He died a long painful death. However, you’ll be happy to hear that just a few years later he was reincarnated as Shirley MacLaine.
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Velvet Elvis never puts on weight.
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Buy our album, were Nirvana, a garage band from Seattle. Well, it sure beats raising cattle.
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