As much as people are griping about the Internet taking sales away from artists, it’s been a huge promotional tool for me.
AL YANKOVICI’m known for being an up, high-energy, and optimistic kind of guy.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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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.
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The window doesn’t open, the fan is broke, and my face is turning blue. I haven’t been in a crowd like this since I went to see the Who.
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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?
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Whenever I do a parody it’s not meant to make you hate anybody’s music really.
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I was abducted by some aliens from space who kind a looked like Jamie Farr.
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On the other hand, I can get all the Metallica songs I want for FREE! WOW!
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Boys like Peter are afraid of alot of things, like nuclear annihilation and flunking algebra, but they’re not afraid of wolves.
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A lot of my cartoon voices are basically just variations on my natural voice.
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Sometimes I get, “Have you ever thought about doing real music?” I like to think the music I do is real, it just happens to be funny.
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How can you get bored if the audience is cheering and laughing at something you’re doing?
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I was able to come up with a couple articles for the magazine, I was able to solicit help from a bunch of my friends to contribute pieces: Patton Oswalt, Seth Green, Emo Phillips, Chris Hardwick, John Hodgman, and more.
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When I started out, I didn’t feel like I was really accepted in the music or comedy communities, and I was somewhere on the edge, but now I feel like I’m accepted in both, which is extremely gratifying.
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There are probably a few library fines I haven’t paid yet, but I’m a pretty clean-cut guy overall.
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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.
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I’ve always enjoyed animation and voiceover work. That’s something that I’ve been proactive about.
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