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I'm obviously not a rapper, and I don't have any claims to be one, really.
Al Yankovic
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Al Yankovic
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: October 23
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One of the hardest things I've had to deal with in my career is keeping my material topical even though I only release albums every three or four years.
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It's hard to really articulate what the parameters are that make one song parody-able and another song not, but if I can come up with a good enough idea for it, I go for it, and if not, then I have to move on.
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My wife went off with Elvis.
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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'm watching the charts every week and hoping something will pop into my head.
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Until you came along I never dated anyone this low on the food chain.
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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 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'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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Kind of wish I was dead. Maybe, I'll blow my brains out, mama, or maybe I'll go bowling.
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I'm still a geek on the inside, that's the important thing.
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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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Take down those naked pictures of Ernest Borgnine.
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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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A lot of artists have really been supportive over the years.
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A lot of my cartoon voices are basically just variations on my natural voice.
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So that's why one of my rules of parody writing is that it's gotta be funny regardless of whether you know the source material. It has to work on its own merit.
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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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