That’s something the kids should know about. Reading is a gateway to witchcraft and lesbianism.
AL YANKOVICHow can you get bored if the audience is cheering and laughing at something you’re doing?
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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I’m always a little leery about doing shows where I’m not the headliner because when I first started playing in 1982 I opened for Missing Persons and got pelted for 45 minutes.
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I’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.
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Then I try to come up with ideas for parodies. And 99% of those ideas are horrible.
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I’m an ugly girl, My face makes you hurl, Sad I have it, I should bag it. Acne everywhere, Unwanted facial hair. I’m a relation to Frankenstein’s creation.
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Like, 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,
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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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I’m watching the charts every week and hoping something will pop into my head.
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That’s a big part of my life – doing things that I’m not prepared to do.
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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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I’m very analytical, I’m very precise. I mean, I don’t write for kids.
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It fit pretty nicely into my schedule because we’d pretty much finished the bulk of promotion for Mandatory Fun and were just getting geared up for the World Tour so this was a nice time for me to be working on it.
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I try not to go the obvious route all the time, but sometimes the most obvious is actually the best.
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My own personal tastes don’t really have an effect on whether song is a parody target or not. But having said that,
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I guess I lost a little bit of self-esteem that time that you made it with the whole hockey team.
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A lot of rap songs don’t usually have a lot of melody per se.
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