Al Yankovic Quotes, Cutting Quotes, Guy Quotes

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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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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There's a lot of different ways that a song would be a challenge to parody. There are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for parody, yet I can't think of a clever enough idea. Some songs are too repetitive for me to be able to fashion a humorous set of lyrics around. Some songs flat-out just don't work creatively for me.

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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 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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I'm an ugly girl, My face makes you hurl, Sad I have it, I should bag it. Acne everywhere, Unwanted facial hair. I'm a relation to Frankenstein's creation.

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I'll bet every great thinker and leader we've got Could see all kinds of things other people could not! So then why get upset if somebody like me Tries to look at the world just a bit differently?

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

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You make me wanna staple bagels to my face, then remove them with a pitchfork.

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I'm stranded all alone in the gas station of love, and I have to use the self service pump.

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I know now that everything I write, I'm going to put out, and I'll have to live with it for the rest of my life.

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Got a brand new semi-automatic weapon with a laser sight. Oh, I'm praying that somebody tries to break in here tonight.

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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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My brothers and sisters hated me because I was an only child.

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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 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. It's very much a "Weird Al" themed issue, so I'd like to think that there's a lot of "Weird Al" flavor throughout but I think it'd be generous really to call me an editor.

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My personal taste doesn't enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.

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I start with a comprehensive list of all the recent songs that have been big hits - and then I go down that list and see if I can come up with funny ideas for them. I can always come up with ideas, but not necessarily good ones!

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I do a lot of different things, sometimes at the same time, and it's very difficult to figure out where I fit.

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I dated Siamese twins, I slept with Big Foot, too. Get me on Sally Jesse, put me on Donahue.

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