“I’ve always known that if I recorded an album, it would come out, and people would enjoy it!”

In a genre where most of the artists are one-hit wonders, I’ve been able to hang around longer than most “serious” acts. I pride myself in being a very talented leech.

I think that nerds, if you want to call them that, have only gotten more hip and assimilated into the culture.

Because you’re supposed to lose yourself in the character, but sometimes people look at a character and go “Oh, it’s ‘Weird Al.'”

My personal taste doesn’t enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.

There are probably a few library fines I haven’t paid yet, but I’m a pretty clean-cut guy overall.

I’d rather clean all the bathrooms in Grand Central Station with my tongue than spend one more minute with you.

Probably 90 percent of my albums have polka medleys.

After that, I made the decision to headline no matter what, even if I was playing to seven people. I wanted people to be there to see me.

I guess I lost a little bit of self-esteem that time that you made it with the whole hockey team.

Buy our album, were Nirvana, a garage band from Seattle. Well, it sure beats raising cattle.

One of my pet peeves is that sometimes the talents of my band get overlooked because, and it was the same problem that Frank Zappa had, with a lot of groups that use humor, people don’t realize there’s a lot of craft behind the comedy.

I try not to go the obvious route all the time, but sometimes the most obvious is actually the best.

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.

I mean, I hate to gloat, but I’m extremely satisfied with my position in life and the way things have worked out for me.

I don’t watch anything on a regular basis – I tend to binge-watch things.

He put Ben Gay inside my jock strap and filled my tooth paste tube up with glue.

I want to sell out arenas and make an album and work with some of the best artists in the world.

If I have a collection of songs for an EP or mixtape, I create the narrative afterwards; but usually with an album, I have a concept and the name first.

I’ve always felt like I was observing everything, like I’m just looking out of the window, peeping how everybody is living and just penning about it, so I made the album about that concept.

There’s always pressure on the second album – this one has to be the big one.

I would definitely want a hit record, but I still want the success to be around the album. Only the music can help me.

I always wanted to be on tour or making albums.

It wasn’t necessary to speak on the recession, you know what I mean, but I just though it made a lot of sense. I was like, “okay, cool,” I’m going to go with this approach for the name of the album [ The Recession].

I don’t think if you set out to make an album to get a bunch of Grammy nominations… you just have to set out to make an album you’ll really love.