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The music has always been my bread and butter, and I’ve focused more of my attention on that.

Al Yankovic

I make charts of songs that are good candidates, good targets, so to speak.
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Some people want to advertise their weirdness, and spread it out, that’s not me.
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People say releasing an album is like giving birth, but it’s more like having a gallbladder operation.
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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.
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About four or five months ago, at a dinner in New York, John made the very nice offer of my being guest editor for an issue of MAD and I thought about it for about half a nanosecond and decided that was a pretty good idea.
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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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You can try on our suede underwear if you choose. Do what you want, but don’t step on my blue suede shoes.
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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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As a wise man once said, “April Fools Day is for amateurs. You NEVER need an excuse to mess with people’s heads.”
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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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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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I think that nerds, if you want to call them that, have only gotten more hip and assimilated into the culture.
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A lot of my cartoon voices are basically just variations on my natural voice.
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I’ve done a movie and a TV series, and someday I’d like to do a successful movie and a successful TV series. That would be nice.
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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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I can’t say enough good things about my band. I feel very fortunate that I found them when I did, very early in my career.
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