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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.

Al Yankovic

As a wise man once said, “April Fools Day is for amateurs. You NEVER need an excuse to mess with people’s heads.”
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April Day Excuse Fool Man never People Wise
Left all my Beatle records out in the sun, got a coke bottle stuck on the end of my tongue.
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Bottle Coke End Got Left Nestle Record Stuck Sun Tongue
I don’t want to pooh-pooh modern pop. I appreciate that as well, but my personal favorite kind of music is guitar-based rock. I like grunge and garage bands and alternative music, but that’s more my personal taste.
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Appreciate Favorite Guitar Kind Modern Music Personal Pooh Pop
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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Bulk Finish Fit Mandatory Nicely Pretty Promotion Scheule
It was difficult to get into my friends’ rock bands when I was a teenager.
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Difficult Friend Player Rock Teenager
I’m known for being an up, high-energy, and optimistic kind of guy.
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Energy Guy High Kind Known Optimistic
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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Own Personal Song Target Taste
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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Book Career Child Picture Pretty Raed Same Time Want Year
I’m still a geek on the inside, that’s the important thing.
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Comedy Geek Important Inside Thing
Right now I’m listening to a lot of Top 40 music, because THAT’S MY JOB.
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Forty Job Listen Music Now Right Top
People that were a little nerdy in high school would look up to me and know it gets better.
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Get Better People School
Beans, beans, the magic legumes – the more you ingest, the more you consume.
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Bean Consume Ingest Magic More
A lot of my cartoon voices are basically just variations on my natural voice.
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Basic Cartoon Natural Variation Voice
You still have Top 40 radio now, but it’s 40 different stations. There aren’t many hits that everybody knows, and there aren’t many real superstars.
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Everybody Forty Know Radio Show Still Superstar
I don’t really look at myself as the kind of person who craves attention, but I’ve never been to therapy so there’s probably a lot of stuff about myself that I don’t know.
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Attention Crave Look Person Probably Stuff Therapy
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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Bathroom Clean Grand Minute Spend Station Tongue

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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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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