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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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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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I try not to go the obvious route all the time, but sometimes the most obvious is actually the best.

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You fake something until you're good at it.

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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?

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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.

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

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It fit pretty nicely into my schedule because we'd pretty much finished the bulk of promotion for Mandatory Fun and were just getting geared up for the World Tour so this was a nice time for me to be working on it.

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I'd rather clean all the bathrooms in Grand Central Station with my tongue than spend one more minute with you.

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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 decided that I wanted to be a voice on every animated cartoon in the history of the world - even shows that haven't been on the air for a very long time, that's going to be harder to pull off.

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Pop culture's gotten much more disposable.

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Sometimes I get, "Have you ever thought about doing real music?" I like to think the music I do is real, it just happens to be funny.

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A lot of artists have really been supportive over the years.

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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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I've always enjoyed animation and voiceover work. That's something that I've been proactive about.

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Beans, beans, the magic legumes - the more you ingest, the more you consume.

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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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You slammed my face down on the barbecue grill, now my scars are all healing, but my heart never will.

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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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