If money can’t buy happiness, then I guess I’ll have to rent it.
AL YANKOVICBeans, beans, the magic legumes – the more you ingest, the more you consume.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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You fake something until you’re good at it.
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I don’t like to label myself. I know I’m very hard to pigeonhole.
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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 can’t say enough good things about my band. I feel very fortunate that I found them when I did, very early in my career.
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I am not making this up. Needless to say, as soon as I discovered that, I gave up meat entirely.
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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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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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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.
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I’m a music fan, and I can listen to the radio, or music, without thinking, “How am I going to screw this up?” [Laughs] If I’m really actively trying to think of a parody, then I’ll have my antenna out, and be a little more proactive about it.
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I’m still a geek on the inside, that’s the important thing.
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I was abducted by some aliens from space who kind a looked like Jamie Farr.
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You don’t need to be defined by your job.
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I try to pick songs that I actually like because I realize that I have to live with these songs for a long time, from when I’m working on them in the studio to possibly playing them onstage for the rest of my life.
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Beans, beans, the magic legumes – the more you ingest, the more you consume.
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I suppose I had my rock star fantasies while I was singing into my hairbrush in the bathroom mirror, but I never really consciously said, ‘OK, this is what I’m going to do for a living and I’m going to be Weird Al.’
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