Quotes By Al Yankovic

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.

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.

I think that nerds, if you want to call them that, have only gotten more hip and assimilated into the culture.

As it turns out, there is a thing called the Internet, and stuff does go out there whether the suits like it or not.

I've learned how to use my spam filter pretty effectively.

People never ask people doing serious music, 'Do you ever think about doing funny music?'

By the time I'm in the studio recording my parody, 10,000 parodies of that song are on YouTube.

As a kid, I certainly never thought I would get to spend my life doing something fun.

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.

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

I mean, I don't write for kids.

Probably 90 percent of my albums have polka medleys.

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

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.

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.

It's hard to force creativity and humor.

There are probably a few library fines I haven't paid yet, but I'm a pretty clean-cut guy overall.

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.

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.

I don't think there are any new media I'd like to cover.

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.'

A lot of rap songs don't usually have a lot of melody per se.

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.

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.

When I go to my live shows it's often a multigenerational audience, a family bonding experience.

There aren't that many superstars around anymore.

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.

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.

I'm obviously not a rapper, and I don't have any claims to be one, really.

How can you get bored if the audience is cheering and laughing at something you're doing?