If you want to avoid heated arguments, never discuss religion, politics, or whether the toilet paper roll should go over or under.
AL YANKOVICThe irony is of course that my career has lasted a whole lot longer than some of the people I’ve parodied over the years.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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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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I do a lot of different things, sometimes at the same time, and it’s very difficult to figure out where I fit.
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I 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.
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People that were a little nerdy in high school would look up to me and know it gets better.
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As a kid, I certainly never thought I would get to spend my life doing something fun.
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I was a huge fan of ‘Mad’ magazine when I was 11, 12, 13 years old. I’d scour used bookstores trying to find back issues, and I’d wait at the newsstand for a new issue to come out. My life revolved around it.
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I was abducted by some aliens from space who kind a looked like Jamie Farr.
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You fake something until you’re good at it.
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I know now that everything I write, I’m going to put out, and I’ll have to live with it for the rest of my life.
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I knew we were having problems when you put those piranhas in my bathtub again.
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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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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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A lot of my cartoon voices are basically just variations on my natural voice.
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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 can bend paper clips into the shapes of small animals.
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