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I mean, I hate to gloat, but I'm extremely satisfied with my position in life and the way things have worked out for me.

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I think that nerds, if you want to call them that, have only gotten more hip and assimilated into the culture.

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

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

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I was a huge fan of 'Mad' magazine when I was 11, 12, 13 years old. I'd scour used bookstores trying to find back issues, and I'd wait at the newsstand for a new issue to come out. My life revolved around it.

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Take down those naked pictures of Ernest Borgnine.

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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'm very analytical, I'm very precise.

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You slammed my face down on the barbecue grill, now my scars are all healing, but my heart never will.

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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 go to my live shows it's often a multigenerational audience, a family bonding experience.

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It's hard to say, I picked one of my favorite articles for the MAD vault. Which is one of the features of the Magazine so they don't have to actually pay artists or writers to come up with new stuff.

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My process for the parodies is that I get an idea for a song and then get approval from the artist and then go in and record it and probably try to get it out as soon as possible.

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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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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 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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Somebody will come up to me after a show and have me sign their arm, and the next time I see them my autograph has been permanently inscribed on their arm.

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I tend to enunciate pretty well. It's always seemed that my voice is one of those voices that people can recognize pretty easily - which has been a bit of a drawback for some characters because you're supposed to lose yourself in the character, but sometimes people look at a character and go "Oh, it's 'Weird Al.'"

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