Weird Al Yankovic Quotes
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At this point I've got a bit of a track record. So people realize that when 'Weird Al' wants to go parody, it's not meant to make them look bad... it's meant to be a tribute.
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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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It becomes more important to me as time goes on to make every album the best thing I've ever done, so it's a lot of self-imposed pressure that also kind of slows me down a bit.
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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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I can't get too offended when somebody parodies me.
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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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So I'm one of the few celebrities that got to do a repeat performance on 'The Simpsons,' which I'm very flattered by.
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You fake something until you're good at it.
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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 very analytical, I'm very precise.
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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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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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I'm still a geek on the inside, that's the important thing.
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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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There aren't that many superstars around anymore.
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As it turns out, there is a thing called the Internet, and stuff does go out there whether the suits like it or not.
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It's hard to really articulate what the parameters are that make one song parody-able and another song not, but if I can come up with a good enough idea for it, I go for it, and if not, then I have to move on.
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Whenever I do a parody it's not meant to make you hate anybody's music really.
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When I was a kid, I thought I was going to be an architect, because when I was 12 years old I had a guidance counselor that convinced me that that was the best career choice for me.
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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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How can you get bored if the audience is cheering and laughing at something you're doing?
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I have a long-standing history of respecting artists' wishes.
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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 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.'