I was abducted by some aliens from space who kind a looked like Jamie Farr.
AL YANKOVICI was abducted by some aliens from space who kind a looked like Jamie Farr.
AL YANKOVICThere’s enough people that do unfunny music. I’ll leave the serious stuff to Paris Hilton and Kevin Federline.
AL YANKOVICThere are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for parody, yet I can’t think of a clever enough idea.
AL YANKOVICAbout four or five months ago, at a dinner in New York, John made the very nice offer of my being guest editor for an issue of MAD and I thought about it for about half a nanosecond and decided that was a pretty good idea.
AL YANKOVICVelvet Elvis never puts on weight.
AL YANKOVICBecause you’re supposed to lose yourself in the character, but sometimes people look at a character and go “Oh, it’s ‘Weird Al.'”
AL YANKOVICProbably 90 percent of my albums have polka medleys.
AL YANKOVICI guess I lost a little bit of self-esteem that time that you made it with the whole hockey team.
AL YANKOVICThey do everything from gangsta rap to polka music and every genre in between. It’s amazing.
AL YANKOVICA lot of artists have really been supportive over the years.
AL YANKOVICBeans, beans, the magic legumes – the more you ingest, the more you consume.
AL YANKOVICI don’t like to label myself. I know I’m very hard to pigeonhole.
AL YANKOVICI write and write and write, and then I edit it down to the parts that I think are amusing, or that help the storyline, or I’ll write a notebook full of ideas of anecdotes or story points.
AL YANKOVICI decided that I wanted to be a voice on every animated cartoon in the history of the world – even shows that haven’t been on the air for a very long time, that’s going to be harder to pull off.
AL YANKOVICThey 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.
AL YANKOVICI can’t get too offended when somebody parodies me.
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