My brothers and sisters hated me because I was an only child.
AL YANKOVICYou slammed my face down on the barbecue grill, now my scars are all healing, but my heart never will.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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I mean, I hate to gloat, but I’m extremely satisfied with my position in life and the way things have worked out for me.
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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.
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I do a lot of different things, sometimes at the same time, and it’s very difficult to figure out where I fit.
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I do original songs in the style of other artists, where I try to learn all their musical idiosyncrasies and try to do something that sounds like them and yet is a bit more sick and twisted.
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Probably 90 percent of my albums have polka medleys.
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So then why get upset if somebody like me Tries to look at the world just a bit differently?
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Didn’t have Nintendo, we just poured salt on snails.
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I can bend paper clips into the shapes of small animals.
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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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A lot of my cartoon voices are basically just variations on my natural voice.
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A lot of artists have really been supportive over the years.
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As a wise man once said, “April Fools Day is for amateurs. You NEVER need an excuse to mess with people’s heads.”
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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.
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It was difficult to get into my friends’ rock bands when I was a teenager.
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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.
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