People that were a little nerdy in high school would look up to me and know it gets better.
AL YANKOVICPeople that were a little nerdy in high school would look up to me and know it gets better.
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 can bend paper clips into the shapes of small animals.
AL YANKOVICThe 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.
AL YANKOVICLike, I have had moments, which I think most people have, where you’ll be watching TV, and it’ll be interrupted by some tragic event, and you’ll actually find yourself thinking,
AL YANKOVICPeople say releasing an album is like giving birth, but it’s more like having a gallbladder operation.
AL YANKOVICWhen I go to my live shows it’s often a multigenerational audience, a family bonding experience.
AL YANKOVICMy brothers and sisters hated me because I was an only child.
AL YANKOVICYou 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.
AL YANKOVICYou make me wanna staple bagels to my face, then remove them with a pitchfork.
AL YANKOVICMy velvet Elvis means the world to me. Although he may not be worth much dough, he means more to me than some old Rembrandt or Van Gogh.
AL YANKOVICI don’t want to pooh-pooh modern pop. I appreciate that as well, but my personal favorite kind of music is guitar-based rock. I like grunge and garage bands and alternative music, but that’s more my personal taste.
AL YANKOVICNot any specific one, but I was a huge fan of Frank Jacobs, I guess he wrote the plurality of the song parodies for MAD, Sam Hart, a few others, but that was also where I was first exposed to the art form of song parodies.
AL YANKOVICMy hobbies just sort of gradually became my vocation.
AL YANKOVICA lot of artists have really been supportive over the years.
AL YANKOVICI guess I lost a little bit of self-esteem that time that you made it with the whole hockey team.
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