It’s hard to force creativity and humor.
AL YANKOVICIt’s hard to force creativity and humor.
AL YANKOVICSomebody 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.
AL YANKOVICI’m a music fan, and I can listen to the radio, or music, without thinking, “How am I going to screw this up?” [Laughs] If I’m really actively trying to think of a parody, then I’ll have my antenna out, and be a little more proactive about it.
AL YANKOVICIf money can’t buy happiness, then I guess I’ll have to rent it.
AL YANKOVICThere’s a lot of different ways that a song would be a challenge to parody.
AL YANKOVICYou got me stranded on the bungee tower of love.
AL YANKOVICI mean, I hate to gloat, but I’m extremely satisfied with my position in life and the way things have worked out for me.
AL YANKOVICPeople never ask people doing serious music, ‘Do you ever think about doing funny music?’
AL YANKOVICBuy our album, were Nirvana, a garage band from Seattle. Well, it sure beats raising cattle.
AL YANKOVICI knew we were having problems when you put those piranhas in my bathtub again.
AL YANKOVICI tend to enunciate pretty well. It’s always seemed that my voice is one of those voices that people can recognize pretty easily – which has been a bit of a drawback for some characters.
AL YANKOVICYou fake something until you’re good at it.
AL YANKOVICI 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.
AL YANKOVICVelvet Elvis never puts on weight.
AL YANKOVICI’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.
AL YANKOVICBecause you’re supposed to lose yourself in the character, but sometimes people look at a character and go “Oh, it’s ‘Weird Al.'”
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