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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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Al Yankovic
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: October 23
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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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I do original songs in the style of other artists, where I try to learn all their musical idiosyncrasies and try to do something that sounds like them and yet is a bit more sick and twisted.
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As a kid, I certainly never thought I would get to spend my life doing something fun.
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I'd like to be able to be more topical and timely and more of-the-moment and I think the way to do that is, instead of waiting until I have twelve songs to release all at once, just to release them as I come up with them.
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I don't want to pooh-pooh modern pop. I appreciate that as well, but my personal favorite kind of music is guitar-based rock. I like grunge and garage bands and alternative music, but that's more my personal taste.
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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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You can play some schlock like New Kids On the Block.
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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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People never ask people doing serious music, 'Do you ever think about doing funny music?'
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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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It doesn't take a military genius to see we'll all be crispy critters after World War III.
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You slammed my face down on the barbecue grill, now my scars are all healing, but my heart never will.
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My hobbies just sort of gradually became my vocation.
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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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I mean, I hate to gloat, but I'm extremely satisfied with my position in life and the way things have worked out for me.
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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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I don't watch anything on a regular basis - I tend to binge-watch things.
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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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