People never ask people doing serious music, ‘Do you ever think about doing funny music?’
AL YANKOVICPeople never ask people doing serious music, ‘Do you ever think about doing funny music?’
AL YANKOVICHow can you get bored if the audience is cheering and laughing at something you’re doing?
AL YANKOVICSo I try not to pick songs that I know would drive me crazy.
AL YANKOVICWell I’ve made no secret of my life long love of MAD Magazine, it’s probably my first and greatest influence in terms of my comic sensibilities. I’ve known John [Ficarra] for many years, and we’ve been friends.
AL YANKOVICIt was difficult to get into my friends’ rock bands when I was a teenager.
AL YANKOVICAt 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.
AL YANKOVICI 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.
AL YANKOVICHe put Ben Gay inside my jock strap and filled my tooth paste tube up with glue.
AL YANKOVICI can’t say enough good things about my band. I feel very fortunate that I found them when I did, very early in my career.
AL YANKOVICThat’s a big part of my life – doing things that I’m not prepared to do.
AL YANKOVICYou got me stranded on the bungee tower of love.
AL YANKOVICI don’t like to label myself. I know I’m very hard to pigeonhole.
AL YANKOVICI’ll bet every great thinker and leader we’ve got Could see all kinds of things other people could not!
AL YANKOVICMy brothers and sisters hated me because I was an only child.
AL YANKOVICSo then why get upset if somebody like me Tries to look at the world just a bit differently?
AL YANKOVICSome people want to advertise their weirdness, and spread it out, that’s not me.
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