I’ll be mellow when I’m dead.
AL YANKOVICMy brothers and sisters hated me because I was an only child.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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When I swore that you’re getting more and more beautiful everyday. Well, I was only kidding, honey.
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In the ’80s, I was putting out an album virtually every year, I think mostly based on fear – that if I didn’t, people would soon forget about me.
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I think that nerds, if you want to call them that, have only gotten more hip and assimilated into the culture.
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And then I’ll try and arrange them in a way that they would tell a semi-cohesive story.
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I like to think that I’ve gotten better at what I do. I spend more time and pay more attention to detail album after album. But pretty much it’s stayed the same.
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There’s a lot of different ways that a song would be a challenge to parody.
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I don’t watch a lot of other people’s parodies because I don’t want to be unduly influenced.
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Velvet Elvis never puts on weight.
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A lot of artists have really been supportive over the years.
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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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Right now I’m listening to a lot of Top 40 music, because THAT’S MY JOB.
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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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In the ’80s, I was the only game in town, I was the only one getting that kind of exposure in any rotation on MTV.
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It’s hard to force creativity and humor.
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I’m still a geek on the inside, that’s the important thing.
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My process for the parodies is that I get an idea for a song and then get approval from the artist and then go in and record it and probably try to get it out as soon as possible.
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After that, I made the decision to headline no matter what, even if I was playing to seven people. I wanted people to be there to see me.
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They somehow didn’t see the need for an accordion player. That’s when I realized that I had to find my own path in life.
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Midget wrestling on channel 3, it costs me 50 bucks a month.
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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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If something is good enough, it can be out there and people will see it.
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I have very mixed feelings about it. On one hand, I’m concerned that the rampant downloading of my copyright-protected material over the Internet is severely eating into my album sales and having a decidedly adverse effect on my career.
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I 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.
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I’m very analytical, I’m very precise.
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I am not making this up. Needless to say, as soon as I discovered that, I gave up meat entirely.
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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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