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I'll be mellow when I'm dead.
Al Yankovic
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Al Yankovic
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: October 23
Actor
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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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Left all my Beatle records out in the sun, got a coke bottle stuck on the end of my tongue.
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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 think my chances of ever making it into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame are about as good as Milli Vanilli’s.
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I'm still a geek on the inside, that's the important thing.
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When I started out, I didn't feel like I was really accepted in the music or comedy communities, and I was somewhere on the edge, but now I feel like I'm accepted in both, which is extremely gratifying.
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I don't think there are any new media I'd like to cover.
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I enjoy all kinds of music. But it is kind of strange when I do parodies, instead of setting up drums and guitar amps.
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I'm free to do what I please, I'm probably not going to do albums. Just because I think releasing tracks as singles is a better way for me to stay topical.
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Not any specific one, but I was a huge fan of Frank Jacobs, I guess he wrote the plurality of the song parodies for MAD, Sam Hart, a few others, but that was also where I was first exposed to the art form of song parodies.
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I've done a movie and a TV series, and someday I'd like to do a successful movie and a successful TV series. That would be nice.
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I'm a music fan, and I can listen to the radio, or music, without thinking, How am I going to screw this up? [Laughs] If I'm really actively trying to think of a parody, then I'll have my antenna out, and be a little more proactive about it.
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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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A lot of my cartoon voices are basically just variations on my natural voice.
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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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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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When I go to my live shows it's often a multigenerational audience, a family bonding experience.
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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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That's something the kids should know about. Reading is a gateway to witchcraft and lesbianism.
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