I don’t like to label myself. I know I’m very hard to pigeonhole.
AL YANKOVICThere 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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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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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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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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Well I’ve made no secret of my life long love of MAD Magazine, it’s probably my first and greatest influence in terms of my comic sensibilities. I’ve known John [Ficarra] for many years, and we’ve been friends.
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People never ask people doing serious music, ‘Do you ever think about doing funny music?’
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It becomes more important to me as time goes on to make every album the best thing I’ve ever done, so it’s a lot of self-imposed pressure that also kind of slows me down a bit.
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I try to pick songs that I actually like because I realize that I have to live with these songs for a long time, from when I’m working on them in the studio to possibly playing them onstage for the rest of my life.
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I love the way they run in fright when I turn on the kitchen light. And when I squish them on the ground, they make a pleasant crunchy sound.
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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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I knew we were having problems when you put those piranhas in my bathtub again.
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I’ll bet every great thinker and leader we’ve got Could see all kinds of things other people could not!
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There’s a lot of different ways that a song would be a challenge to parody.
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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 can bend paper clips into the shapes of small animals.
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People that were a little nerdy in high school would look up to me and know it gets better.
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