“If you’re rolling over rocks and stuff and you have a bigger wheel, it’s going to stay out of the holes – rough sections become smoother.”

Ever since I was a little kid, when I was racing motocross and stuff, it’s been a dream to ride for Red Bull someday.

With a larger wheel, you have more contact with the ground, so you have better traction whether you’re braking or cornering or any of that stuff. Also, with bigger wheels, once you get them up to speed, they roll faster.

With buildering, I get to keep that element of danger. Plus, I very much like the feeling of height, and buildings have even more of a feeling of height than rock faces.

Only two to three per cent of an audience is interested in words and pays attention to lyrics.

I think that was the genesis of my polka medleys, because every rock song I played on the accordion just sounded like a polka and my friends thought it was funny.

I think my chances of ever making it into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame are about as good as Milli Vanilli’s.

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.’

I cut my teeth playing rock songs on the accordion when I was a teenager and my friends always thought that was extremely amusing.

It was difficult to get into my friends’ rock bands when I was a teenager.

There’s room in the world for one historical folk-rock singer to make a decent living, and I happen to be it.