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In fact, when I come up with an idea for a parody I try to resist the urge to Google the idea to see if someone has done it already because the answer is almost always, "Yes, of course they have, they've thought of it!"

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My velvet Elvis means the world to me. Although he may not be worth much dough, he means more to me than some old Rembrandt or Van Gogh.

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I think that nerds, if you want to call them that, have only gotten more hip and assimilated into the culture.

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I don't like to label myself. I know I'm very hard to pigeonhole.

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I guess I lost a little bit of self-esteem that time that you made it with the whole hockey team.

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It's hard to force creativity and humor.

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I've always known that if I recorded an album, it would come out, and people would enjoy it! Whereas if I wrote a movie script, chances are better than even that I'd just be another guy in L.A. with a movie script in his drawer.

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There are probably a few library fines I haven't paid yet, but I'm a pretty clean-cut guy overall.

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I'm very analytical, I'm very precise. I mean, I don't write for kids.

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I enjoy all kinds of music. But it is kind of strange when I do parodies, instead of setting up drums and guitar amps.

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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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Kind of wish I was dead. Maybe, I'll blow my brains out, mama, or maybe I'll go bowling.

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I tend to enunciate pretty well. It's always seemed that my voice is one of those voices that people can recognize pretty easily - which has been a bit of a drawback for some characters 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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I knew we were having problems when you put those piranhas in my bathtub again.

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How can you get bored if the audience is cheering and laughing at something you're doing?

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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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The irony is of course that my career has lasted a whole lot longer than some of the people I've parodied over the years.

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By the time I'm in the studio recording my parody, 10,000 parodies of that song are on YouTube.

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You can try on our suede underwear if you choose. Do what you want, but don't step on my blue suede shoes.

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When I swore that you're getting more and more beautiful everyday. Well, I was only kidding, honey.

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