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I don't watch a lot of other people's parodies because I don't want to be unduly influenced.

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I tend to enunciate pretty well. It's always seemed that my voice is one of those voices that people can recognize pretty easily - which has been a bit of a drawback for some characters because you're supposed to lose yourself in the character, but sometimes people look at a character and go "Oh, it's 'Weird Al.'"

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There's enough people that do unfunny music. I'll leave the serious stuff to Paris Hilton and Kevin Federline.

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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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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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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.

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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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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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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.

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I enjoy all kinds of music. But it is kind of strange when I do parodies, instead of setting up drums and guitar amps.

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Take down those naked pictures of Ernest Borgnine.

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Some people want to advertise their weirdness, and spread it out, that's not me.

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If something is good enough, it can be out there and people will see it.

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No Joni Mitchell 8 track tapes in my car.

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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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You make me wanna staple bagels to my face, then remove them with a pitchfork.

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

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I think I'm equally as abusive as the editors normally are for the "Letters and Tomatoes" column, which is the fan mail part of MAD Magazine and an ongoing feature.

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Midget wrestling on channel 3, it costs me 50 bucks a month.

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Not any specific one, but I was a huge fan of Frank Jacobs, I guess he wrote the plurality of the song parodies for MAD, Sam Hart, a few others, but that was also where I was first exposed to the art form of song parodies.

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