It doesn’t take a military genius to see we’ll all be crispy critters after World War III.
AL YANKOVICI don’t watch a lot of other people’s parodies because I don’t want to be unduly influenced.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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If something is good enough, it can be out there and people will see it.
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Somebody will come up to me after a show and have me sign their arm, and the next time I see them my autograph has been permanently inscribed on their arm.
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I try to pick songs that I actually like because I realize that I have to live with these songs for a long time, from when I’m working on them in the studio to possibly playing them onstage for the rest of my life.
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When I started out, I didn’t feel like I was really accepted in the music or comedy communities, and I was somewhere on the edge, but now I feel like I’m accepted in both, which is extremely gratifying.
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I don’t really look at myself as the kind of person who craves attention, but I’ve never been to therapy so there’s probably a lot of stuff about myself that I don’t know.
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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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Whenever I do a parody it’s not meant to make you hate anybody’s music really.
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I’ve always known that if I recorded an album, it would come out, and people would enjoy it!
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I think my chances of ever making it into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame are about as good as Milli Vanilli’s.
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At 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.
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Kind of wish I was dead. Maybe, I’ll blow my brains out, mama, or maybe I’ll go bowling.
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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 try not to go the obvious route all the time, but sometimes the most obvious is actually the best.
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I’m still a geek on the inside, that’s the important thing.
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So that was a joke that I continue up to this very day.
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