I’m known for being an up, high-energy, and optimistic kind of guy.
AL YANKOVICI’m known for being an up, high-energy, and optimistic kind of guy.
AL YANKOVICI 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.’
AL YANKOVICDidn’t have Nintendo, we just poured salt on snails.
AL YANKOVICDoing things that I don’t know how to do, and keep doing them until I get good at them.
AL YANKOVICEver since the day you left me, I’ve been so miserable, my dear. I feel almost as bad as I did when you were still here.
AL YANKOVICLike, 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,
AL YANKOVICYou make me wanna staple bagels to my face, then remove them with a pitchfork.
AL YANKOVICThat’s a big part of my life – doing things that I’m not prepared to do.
AL YANKOVICSome people want to advertise their weirdness, and spread it out, that’s not me.
AL YANKOVICHow can you get bored if the audience is cheering and laughing at something you’re doing?
AL YANKOVICThen I try to come up with ideas for parodies. And 99% of those ideas are horrible.
AL YANKOVICI’d like to be able to be more topical and timely and more of-the-moment and I think the way to do that is, instead of waiting until I have twelve songs to release all at once, just to release them as I come up with them.
AL YANKOVICI do a lot of different things, sometimes at the same time, and it’s very difficult to figure out where I fit.
AL YANKOVICWell I’ve made no secret of my life long love of MAD Magazine, it’s probably my first and greatest influence in terms of my comic sensibilities. I’ve known John [Ficarra] for many years, and we’ve been friends.
AL YANKOVICAs much as people are griping about the Internet taking sales away from artists, it’s been a huge promotional tool for me.
AL YANKOVICA lot of rap songs don’t usually have a lot of melody per se.
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