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.
AL YANKOVICI’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.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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I have a long-standing history of respecting artists’ wishes.
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They do everything from gangsta rap to polka music and every genre in between. It’s amazing.
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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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It doesn’t take a military genius to see we’ll all be crispy critters after World War III.
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So then why get upset if somebody like me Tries to look at the world just a bit differently?
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Velvet Elvis never puts on weight.
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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’ve learned how to use my spam filter pretty effectively.
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It was difficult to get into my friends’ rock bands when I was a teenager.
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People never ask people doing serious music, ‘Do you ever think about doing funny music?’
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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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I think that was the genesis of my polka medleys, because every rock song I played on the accordion just sounded like a polka and my friends thought it was funny.
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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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Midget wrestling on channel 3, it costs me 50 bucks a month.
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I don’t like to label myself. I know I’m very hard to pigeonhole.
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