As a kid, I certainly never thought I would get to spend my life doing something fun.
From Al Yankovic
I'm very analytical, I'm very precise.
If something is good enough, it can be out there and people will see it.
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.
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.
As much as people are griping about the Internet taking sales away from artists, it's been a huge promotional tool for me.
I'm watching the charts every week and hoping something will pop into my head.
By the time I'm in the studio recording my parody, 10,000 parodies of that song are on YouTube.
Like, I have had moments, which I think most people have, where you'll be watching TV, and it'll be interrupted by some tragic event, and you'll actually find yourself thinking, 'I don't want to hear about this train being derailed! What happened to 'The Flintstones?'
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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