I love the way they run in fright when I turn on the kitchen light. And when I squish them on the ground, they make a pleasant crunchy sound.
AL YANKOVICThen I try to come up with ideas for parodies. And 99% of those ideas are horrible.
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You can try on our suede underwear if you choose. Do what you want, but don’t step on my blue suede shoes.
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Every night for dinner we had a big chunk of dirt.
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So I’m one of the few celebrities that got to do a repeat performance on ‘The Simpsons,’ which I’m very flattered by.
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That’s something the kids should know about. Reading is a gateway to witchcraft and lesbianism.
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I don’t think there are any new media I’d like to cover.
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So I try not to pick songs that I know would drive me crazy.
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I’m stranded all alone in the gas station of love, and I have to use the self service pump.
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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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Many years ago I found out something about hamburgers that really grossed me out. You may not know this, so I hope I don’t make you sick, but it turns out hamburgers are actually made out of dead cows.
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I have very mixed feelings about it. On one hand, I’m concerned that the rampant downloading of my copyright-protected material over the Internet is severely eating into my album sales and having a decidedly adverse effect on my career.
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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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People say releasing an album is like giving birth, but it’s more like having a gallbladder operation.
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My wife went off with Elvis.
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I try not to go the obvious route all the time, but sometimes the most obvious is actually the best.
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So that’s why one of my rules of parody writing is that it’s gotta be funny regardless of whether you know the source material. It has to work on its own merit.
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