I have very mixed feelings about it. On one hand, I’m concerned that the rampant downloading of my copyright-protected material over the Internet is severely eating into my album sales and having a decidedly adverse effect on my career.
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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I’m obviously not a rapper, and I don’t have any claims to be one, really.
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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 don’t watch a lot of other people’s parodies because I don’t want to be unduly influenced.
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I was a huge fan of ‘Mad’ magazine when I was 11, 12, 13 years old. I’d scour used bookstores trying to find back issues, and I’d wait at the newsstand for a new issue to come out. My life revolved around it.
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My wife went off with Elvis.
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A lot of my cartoon voices are basically just variations on my natural voice.
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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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People say releasing an album is like giving birth, but it’s more like having a gallbladder operation.
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When I was a kid, I thought I was going to be an architect, because when I was 12 years old I had a guidance counselor that convinced me that that was the best career choice for me.
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Right now I’m listening to a lot of Top 40 music, because THAT’S MY JOB.
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I always try to put myself out of my comfort zone and out of my depth, and hopefully somewhere along the line I’ll catch up.
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He put Ben Gay inside my jock strap and filled my tooth paste tube up with glue.
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Left all my Beatle records out in the sun, got a coke bottle stuck on the end of my tongue.
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So that was a joke that I continue up to this very day.
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If money can’t buy happiness, then I guess I’ll have to rent it.
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