The music has always been my bread and butter, and I’ve focused more of my attention on that.
AL YANKOVICI’ve always known that if I recorded an album, it would come out, and people would enjoy it!
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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I don’t want to hear about this train being derailed! What happened to ‘The Flintstones’?’
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There are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for parody, yet I can’t think of a clever enough idea.
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I enjoy all kinds of music. But it is kind of strange when I do parodies, instead of setting up drums and guitar amps.
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There’s enough people that do unfunny music. I’ll leave the serious stuff to Paris Hilton and Kevin Federline.
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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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It’s hard to say, I picked one of my favorite articles for the MAD vault. Which is one of the features of the Magazine so they don’t have to actually pay artists or writers to come up with new stuff.
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My process for the parodies is that I get an idea for a song and then get approval from the artist and then go in and record it and probably try to get it out as soon as possible.
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I’d rather clean all the bathrooms in Grand Central Station with my tongue than spend one more minute with you.
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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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When I go to my live shows it’s often a multigenerational audience, a family bonding experience.
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It was difficult to get into my friends’ rock bands when I was a teenager.
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Because you’re supposed to lose yourself in the character, but sometimes people look at a character and go “Oh, it’s ‘Weird Al.'”
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As it turns out, there is a thing called the Internet, and stuff does go out there whether the suits like it or not.
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Boys like Peter are afraid of alot of things, like nuclear annihilation and flunking algebra, but they’re not afraid of wolves.
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Left all my Beatle records out in the sun, got a coke bottle stuck on the end of my tongue.
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