Al Yankovic Quotes, Looks Quotes, Attention Quotes

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

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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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It fit pretty nicely into my schedule because we'd pretty much finished the bulk of promotion for Mandatory Fun and were just getting geared up for the World Tour so this was a nice time for me to be working on it.

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

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Take down those naked pictures of Ernest Borgnine.

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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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You can play some schlock like New Kids On the Block.

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

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Pop culture's gotten much more disposable.

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In the '80s, I was putting out an album virtually every year, I think mostly based on fear - that if I didn't, people would soon forget about me.

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People that were a little nerdy in high school would look up to me and know it gets better.

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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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I'm obviously not a rapper, and I don't have any claims to be one, really.

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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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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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Like, I have had moments, which I think most people have, where you'll be watching TV, and it'll be interrupted by some tragic event, and you'll actually find yourself thinking, 'I don't want to hear about this train being derailed! What happened to 'The Flintstones'?'

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It was difficult to get into my friends' rock bands when I was a teenager. They somehow didn't see the need for an accordion player. That's when I realized that I had to find my own path in life.

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