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I can't get too offended when somebody parodies me.

Al Yankovic

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Al Yankovic
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: October 23
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Take down those naked pictures of Ernest Borgnine.
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I decided that I wanted to be a voice on every animated cartoon in the history of the world - even shows that haven't been on the air for a very long time, that's going to be harder to pull off.
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You make me wanna staple bagels to my face, then remove them with a pitchfork.
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As a kid, I certainly never thought I would get to spend my life doing something fun.
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I know now that everything I write, I'm going to put out, and I'll have to live with it for the rest of my life.
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Maybe I'll make a huge color tapestry from my belly button lint.
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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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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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Some people want to advertise their weirdness, and spread it out, that's not me.
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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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Didn't have Nintendo, we just poured salt on snails.
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I did have a child, and I was reading a lot of picture books to her, but at the same time writing a children's book was something that I'd been wanting to do for many years, pretty much since the start of my career.
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There are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for parody, yet I can't think of a clever enough idea.
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I don't like to label myself. I know I'm very hard to pigeonhole.
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My brothers and sisters hated me because I was an only child.
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It becomes more important to me as time goes on to make every album the best thing I've ever done, so it's a lot of self-imposed pressure that also kind of slows me down a bit.
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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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When I swore that you're getting more and more beautiful everyday. Well, I was only kidding, honey.
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In the '80s, I was the only game in town, I was the only one getting that kind of exposure in any rotation on MTV. Now with internet culture it seems like everyone is doing music parodies. And they're not all good!
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