I think I’m equally as abusive as the editors normally are for the “Letters and Tomatoes” column, which is the fan mail part of MAD Magazine and an ongoing feature.
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 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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When I started out, I didn’t feel like I was really accepted in the music or comedy communities, and I was somewhere on the edge, but now I feel like I’m accepted in both, which is extremely gratifying.
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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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My own personal tastes don’t really have an effect on whether song is a parody target or not. But having said that,
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Until you came along I never dated anyone this low on the food chain.
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My brothers and sisters hated me because I was an only child.
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Some songs are too repetitive for me to be able to fashion a humorous set of lyrics around. Some songs flat-out just don’t work creatively for me.
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It doesn’t take a military genius to see we’ll all be crispy critters after World War III.
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On the other hand, I can get all the Metallica songs I want for FREE! WOW!
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I’m always a little leery about doing shows where I’m not the headliner because when I first started playing in 1982 I opened for Missing Persons and got pelted for 45 minutes.
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I’m free to do what I please, I’m probably not going to do albums. Just because I think releasing tracks as singles is a better way for me to stay topical.
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It fit pretty nicely into my schedule because we’d pretty much finished the bulk of promotion for Mandatory Fun and were just getting geared up for the World Tour so this was a nice time for me to be working on it.
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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.
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No Joni Mitchell 8 track tapes in my car.
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I know I’m a million times as humble as thou art!
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