I was able to come up with a couple articles for the magazine, I was able to solicit help from a bunch of my friends to contribute pieces: Patton Oswalt, Seth Green, Emo Phillips, Chris Hardwick, John Hodgman, and more.
AL YANKOVICSome people want to advertise their weirdness, and spread it out, that’s not me.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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I write and write and write, and then I edit it down to the parts that I think are amusing, or that help the storyline, or I’ll write a notebook full of ideas of anecdotes or story points.
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When I swore that you’re getting more and more beautiful everyday. Well, I was only kidding, honey.
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I know now that everything I write, I’m going to put out, and I’ll have to live with it for the rest of my life.
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The irony is of course that my career has lasted a whole lot longer than some of the people I’ve parodied over the years.
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I tend to enunciate pretty well. It’s always seemed that my voice is one of those voices that people can recognize pretty easily – which has been a bit of a drawback for some characters.
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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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I did have a child, and I was reading a lot of picture books to her, but at the same time writing a children’s book was something that I’d been wanting to do for many years, pretty much since the start of my career.
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What kind of morons do you have working at newspapers in Austin that would base an entire review of an artist’s performance on whether or not they had a good seat?
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There aren’t that many superstars around anymore.
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I do a lot of different things, sometimes at the same time, and it’s very difficult to figure out where I fit.
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The music has always been my bread and butter, and I’ve focused more of my attention on that.
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Doing things that I don’t know how to do, and keep doing them until I get good at them.
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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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I’m known for being an up, high-energy, and optimistic kind of guy.
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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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