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Velvet Elvis never puts on weight.

Al Yankovic

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Al Yankovic
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: October 23
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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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There aren't that many superstars around anymore.
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That's a big part of my life - doing things that I'm not prepared to do. Doing things that I don't know how to do, and keep doing them until I get good at them. I always try to put myself out of my comfort zone and out of my depth, and hopefully somewhere along the line I'll catch up.
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The irony is of course that my career has lasted a whole lot longer than some of the people I've parodied over the years.
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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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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 was abducted by some aliens from space who kind a looked like Jamie Farr.
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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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As a wise man once said, “April Fools Day is for amateurs. You NEVER need an excuse to mess with people's heads.”
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I'm very analytical, I'm very precise.
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I make charts of songs that are good candidates, good targets, so to speak. Then I try to come up with ideas for parodies. And 99% of those ideas are horrible.
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Like, I have had moments, which I think most people have, where you'll be watching TV, and it'll be interrupted by some tragic event, and you'll actually find yourself thinking, 'I don't want to hear about this train being derailed! What happened to 'The Flintstones'?'
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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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My hobbies just sort of gradually became my vocation.
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I'm stranded all alone in the gas station of love, and I have to use the self service pump.
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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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You don't need to be defined by your job.
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I can't get too offended when somebody parodies me.
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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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