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People never ask people doing serious music, 'Do you ever think about doing funny music?'

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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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I suppose I had my rock star fantasies while I was singing into my hairbrush in the bathroom mirror, but I never really consciously said, 'OK, this is what I'm going to do for a living and I'm going to be Weird Al.'

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The music has always been my bread and butter, and I've focused more of my attention on that.

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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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That's something the kids should know about. Reading is a gateway to witchcraft and lesbianism.

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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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I have a long-standing history of respecting artists' wishes.

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Some people want to advertise their weirdness, and spread it out, that's not me.

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My hobbies just sort of gradually became my vocation.

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As much as people are griping about the Internet taking sales away from artists, it's been a huge promotional tool for me.

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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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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. 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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Midget wrestling on channel 3, it costs me 50 bucks a month.

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If money can't buy happiness, then I guess I'll have to rent it.

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I've learned how to use my spam filter pretty effectively.

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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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At this point I've got a bit of a track record. So people realize that when 'Weird Al' wants to go parody, it's not meant to make them look bad... it's meant to be a tribute.

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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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I'm a music fan, and I can listen to the radio, or music, without thinking, "How am I going to screw this up?" [Laughs] If I'm really actively trying to think of a parody, then I'll have my antenna out, and be a little more proactive about it.

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