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.
AL YANKOVICI 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.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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A lot of artists have really been supportive over the years.
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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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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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I like to think that I’ve gotten better at what I do. I spend more time and pay more attention to detail album after album. But pretty much it’s stayed the same.
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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 don’t want to hear about this train being derailed! What happened to ‘The Flintstones’?’
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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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You can play some schlock like New Kids On the Block.
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Some people want to advertise their weirdness, and spread it out, that’s not me.
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Beans, beans, the magic legumes – the more you ingest, the more you consume.
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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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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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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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I’d rather clean all the bathrooms in Grand Central Station with my tongue than spend one more minute with you.
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Every night for dinner we had a big chunk of dirt.
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