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I can bend paper clips into the shapes of small animals.

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Al Yankovic
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: October 23
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I'm always a little leery about doing shows where I'm not the headliner because when I first started playing in 1982 I opened for Missing Persons and got pelted for 45 minutes. After that, I made the decision to headline no matter what, even if I was playing to seven people. I wanted people to be there to see me.
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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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There's a lot of different ways that a song would be a challenge to parody. 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. Some songs are too repetitive for me to be able to fashion a humorous set of lyrics around. Some songs flat-out just don't work creatively for me.
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Maybe I'll make a huge color tapestry from my belly button lint.
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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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Right now I'm listening to a lot of Top 40 music, because THAT'S MY JOB.
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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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Sometimes I get, Have you ever thought about doing real music? I like to think the music I do is real, it just happens to be funny.
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Probably 90 percent of my albums have polka medleys.
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No Joni Mitchell 8 track tapes in my car.
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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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I'm stranded all alone in the gas station of love, and I have to use the self service pump.
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There are probably a few library fines I haven't paid yet, but I'm a pretty clean-cut guy overall.
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I suppose I had my rock star fantasies while I was singing into my hairbrush in the bathroom mirror, but I never really consciously said, 'OK, this is what I'm going to do for a living and I'm going to be Weird Al.'
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In fact, when I come up with an idea for a parody I try to resist the urge to Google the idea to see if someone has done it already because the answer is almost always, Yes, of course they have, they've thought of it!
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