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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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Al Yankovic
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: October 23
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Boys like Peter are afraid of alot of things, like nuclear annihilation and flunking algebra, but they're not afraid of wolves.
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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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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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You still have Top 40 radio now, but it's 40 different stations. There aren't many hits that everybody knows, and there aren't many real superstars.
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Buy our album, were Nirvana, a garage band from Seattle. Well, it sure beats raising cattle.
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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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I do a lot of different things, sometimes at the same time, and it's very difficult to figure out where I fit.
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I guess I lost a little bit of self-esteem that time that you made it with the whole hockey team.
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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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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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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 can bend paper clips into the shapes of small animals.
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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 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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Until you came along I never dated anyone this low on the food chain.
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Maybe I'll make a huge color tapestry from my belly button lint.
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I'm very analytical, I'm very precise.
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The music has always been my bread and butter, and I've focused more of my attention on that.
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I can't get too offended when somebody parodies me.
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I'm still a geek on the inside, that's the important thing.
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