People say releasing an album is like giving birth, but it’s more like having a gallbladder operation.
AL YANKOVICMy wife went off with Elvis.
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As a kid, I certainly never thought I would get to spend my life doing something fun.
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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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It’s hard to force creativity and humor.
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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 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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And then I’ll try and arrange them in a way that they would tell a semi-cohesive story.
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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’m a music fan, and I can listen to the radio, or music, without thinking, “How am I going to screw this up?” [Laughs] If I’m really actively trying to think of a parody, then I’ll have my antenna out, and be a little more proactive about it.
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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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My velvet Elvis means the world to me. Although he may not be worth much dough, he means more to me than some old Rembrandt or Van Gogh.
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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 can’t get too offended when somebody parodies me.
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I’m just a no-good, scum sucking, nose picking, boot licking, sniveling, groveling, worthless hunk of slime.
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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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My personal taste doesn’t enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.
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