Quotes By Al Yankovic

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.

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.

I'm still a geek on the inside, that's the important thing.

I'm very analytical, I'm very precise.

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?

I'm watching the charts every week and hoping something will pop into my head.

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.

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

As much as people are griping about the Internet taking sales away from artists, it's been a huge promotional tool for me.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Probably 90 percent of my albums have polka medleys.

I mean, I don't write for kids.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.