When I go to my live shows it’s often a multigenerational audience, a family bonding experience.
AL YANKOVICAs a wise man once said, “April Fools Day is for amateurs. You NEVER need an excuse to mess with people’s heads.”
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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Some people want to advertise their weirdness, and spread it out, that’s not me.
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My personal taste doesn’t enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.
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If I could find the right kind of property, get tied in with the right movie, I’d love to be involved, but I just find it hard to be motivated to do another screenplay right now.
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It was difficult to get into my friends’ rock bands when I was a teenager.
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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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My hobbies just sort of gradually became my vocation.
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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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Buy our album, were Nirvana, a garage band from Seattle. Well, it sure beats raising cattle.
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I 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.
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Whereas if I wrote a movie script, chances are better than even that I’d just be another guy in L.A. with a movie script in his drawer.
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The music has always been my bread and butter, and I’ve focused more of my attention on that.
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I knew we were having problems when you put those piranhas in my bathtub again.
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I always try to put myself out of my comfort zone and out of my depth, and hopefully somewhere along the line I’ll catch up.
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About 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.
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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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