Al Yankovic Quotes, Honesty Quotes, Nintendo Quotes

Didn't have Nintendo, we just poured salt on snails.

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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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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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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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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 can't get too offended when somebody parodies me.

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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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Velvet Elvis never puts on weight.

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I try not to go the obvious route all the time, but sometimes the most obvious is actually the best.

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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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Whenever I do a parody it's not meant to make you hate anybody's music really.

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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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I've always enjoyed animation and voiceover work. That's something that I've been proactive about.

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One of the hardest things I've had to deal with in my career is keeping my material topical even though I only release albums every three or four years.

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In a genre where most of the artists are one-hit wonders, I've been able to hang around longer than most "serious" acts. I pride myself in being a very talented leech.

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

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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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As it turns out, there is a thing called the Internet, and stuff does go out there whether the suits like it or not.

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