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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
What kind of morons do you have working at newspapers in Austin that would base an entire review of an artist's performance on whether or not they had a good seat?
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
My personal taste doesn't enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.
- Performance
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- Nov 07, 2020
So I'm one of the few celebrities that got to do a repeat performance on 'The Simpsons,' which I'm very flattered by.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I go to my live shows it's often a multigenerational audience, a family bonding experience.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a kid, I certainly never thought I would get to spend my life doing something fun.
- Precise
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very analytical, I'm very precise.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
As it turns out, there is a thing called the Internet, and stuff does go out there whether the suits like it or not.
- Around
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- Nov 07, 2020
There aren't that many superstars around anymore.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of my pet peeves is that sometimes the talents of my band get overlooked because, and it was the same problem that Frank Zappa had, with a lot of groups that use humor, people don't realize there's a lot of craft behind the comedy.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
As much as people are griping about the Internet taking sales away from artists, it's been a huge promotional tool for me.
- Song
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- Nov 07, 2020
By the time I'm in the studio recording my parody, 10,000 parodies of that song are on YouTube.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
I write and write and write, and then I edit it down to the parts that I think are amusing, or that help the storyline, or I'll write a notebook full of ideas of anecdotes or story points, and then I'll try and arrange them in a way that they would tell a semi-cohesive story.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't get too offended when somebody parodies me.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
People never ask people doing serious music, 'Do you ever think about doing funny music?'
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like the guitar-driven music of Nirvana at its peak. At that point, I thought there was a lot of really exciting music coming out.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Percent
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- Nov 07, 2020
Probably 90 percent of my albums have polka medleys.
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- Nov 07, 2020
People that were a little nerdy in high school would look up to me and know it gets better.
- Over
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of artists have really been supportive over the years.
- Choice
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I could find the right kind of property, get tied in with the right movie, I'd love to be involved, but I just find it hard to be motivated to do another screenplay right now.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Mean
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- Nov 07, 2020
I mean, I don't write for kids.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Hobbies
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- Nov 07, 2020
My hobbies just sort of gradually became my vocation.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.'
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've learned how to use my spam filter pretty effectively.
- Next
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- Nov 07, 2020
Somebody will come up to me after a show and have me sign their arm, and the next time I see them my autograph has been permanently inscribed on their arm.
- Per
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of rap songs don't usually have a lot of melody per se.
- Over
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some people want to advertise their weirdness, and spread it out, that's not me.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
You fake something until you're good at it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the '80s, I was putting out an album virtually every year, I think mostly based on fear - that if I didn't, people would soon forget about me.
- Media
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think there are any new media I'd like to cover.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Fines
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are probably a few library fines I haven't paid yet, but I'm a pretty clean-cut guy overall.
- Disposable
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pop culture's gotten much more disposable.
- Force
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's hard to force creativity and humor.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that nerds, if you want to call them that, have only gotten more hip and assimilated into the culture.
- Cheering
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- Nov 07, 2020
How can you get bored if the audience is cheering and laughing at something you're doing?
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020