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By the time I'm in the studio recording my parody, 10,000 parodies of that song are on YouTube.

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Al Yankovic
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: October 23
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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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I don't want to pooh-pooh modern pop. I appreciate that as well, but my personal favorite kind of music is guitar-based rock. I like grunge and garage bands and alternative music, but that's more my personal taste.
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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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I've always known that if I recorded an album, it would come out, and people would enjoy it! Whereas if I wrote a movie script, chances are better than even that I'd just be another guy in L.A. with a movie script in his drawer.
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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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Boys like Peter are afraid of alot of things, like nuclear annihilation and flunking algebra, but they're not afraid of wolves.
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I can bend paper clips into the shapes of small animals.
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If money can't buy happiness, then I guess I'll have to rent it.
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It doesn't take a military genius to see we'll all be crispy critters after World War III.
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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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I knew we were having problems when you put those piranhas in my bathtub again.
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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'm obviously not a rapper, and I don't have any claims to be one, really.
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You fake something until you're good at it.
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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 try not to go the obvious route all the time, but sometimes the most obvious is actually the best.
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I can't get too offended when somebody parodies me.
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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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You don't need to be defined by your job.
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