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As my father used to tell me, the only true sign of success in life is being able to do for a living that which makes you happy.

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I've done a movie and a TV series, and someday I'd like to do a successful movie and a successful TV series. That would be nice.

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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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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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A lot of rap songs don't usually have a lot of melody per se.

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My hobbies just sort of gradually became my vocation.

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Pop culture's gotten much more disposable.

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What kind of morons do you have working at newspapers in Austin that would base an entire review of an artist's performance on whether or not they had a good seat?

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I can bend paper clips into the shapes of small animals.

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I'm watching the charts every week and hoping something will pop into my head.

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My wife went off with Elvis.

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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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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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Every night for dinner we had a big chunk of dirt.

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

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I was abducted by some aliens from space who kind a looked like Jamie Farr.

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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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Take down those naked pictures of Ernest Borgnine.

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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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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, and then I'll try and arrange them in a way that they would tell a semi-cohesive story.

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