Got a brand new semi-automatic weapon with a laser sight. Oh, I’m praying that somebody tries to break in here tonight.
AL YANKOVICYou make me wanna staple bagels to my face, then remove them with a pitchfork.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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A lot of my cartoon voices are basically just variations on my natural voice.
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As much as people are griping about the Internet taking sales away from artists, it’s been a huge promotional tool for me.
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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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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.
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My own personal tastes don’t really have an effect on whether song is a parody target or not. But having said that,
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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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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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Left all my Beatle records out in the sun, got a coke bottle stuck on the end of my tongue.
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No Joni Mitchell 8 track tapes in my car.
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You don’t need to be defined by your job.
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I think that nerds, if you want to call them that, have only gotten more hip and assimilated into the culture.
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There are probably a few library fines I haven’t paid yet, but I’m a pretty clean-cut guy overall.
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I have a long-standing history of respecting artists’ wishes.
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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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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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