I was abducted by some aliens from space who kind a looked like Jamie Farr.
AL YANKOVICAt 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.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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By the time I’m in the studio recording my parody, 10,000 parodies of that song are on YouTube.
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Sometimes I get, “Have you ever thought about doing real music?” I like to think the music I do is real, it just happens to be funny.
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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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People never ask people doing serious music, ‘Do you ever think about doing funny music?’
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The irony is of course that my career has lasted a whole lot longer than some of the people I’ve parodied over the years.
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It’s very much a “Weird Al” themed issue, so I’d like to think that there’s a lot of “Weird Al” flavor throughout but I think it’d be generous really to call me an editor.
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No Joni Mitchell 8 track tapes in my car.
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Every night for dinner we had a big chunk of dirt.
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I’ll be mellow when I’m dead.
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There aren’t that many superstars around anymore.
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I’ve done a movie and a TV series, and someday I’d like to do a successful movie and a successful TV series. That would be nice.
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You still have Top 40 radio now, but it’s 40 different stations. There aren’t many hits that everybody knows, and there aren’t many real superstars.
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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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My personal taste doesn’t enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.
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People say releasing an album is like giving birth, but it’s more like having a gallbladder operation.
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