My brothers and sisters hated me because I was an only child.
AL YANKOVICNow with internet culture it seems like everyone is doing music parodies. And they’re not all good!
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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I don’t like to label myself. I know I’m very hard to pigeonhole.
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I decided that I wanted to be a voice on every animated cartoon in the history of the world – even shows that haven’t been on the air for a very long time, that’s going to be harder to pull off.
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Whenever I do a parody it’s not meant to make you hate anybody’s music really.
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A lot of rap songs don’t usually have a lot of melody per se.
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Like, 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,
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Buy our album, were Nirvana, a garage band from Seattle. Well, it sure beats raising cattle.
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At 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.
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A lot of artists have really been supportive over the years.
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That’s something the kids should know about. Reading is a gateway to witchcraft and lesbianism.
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He put Ben Gay inside my jock strap and filled my tooth paste tube up with glue.
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I’m always a little leery about doing shows where I’m not the headliner because when I first started playing in 1982 I opened for Missing Persons and got pelted for 45 minutes.
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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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Kind of wish I was dead. Maybe, I’ll blow my brains out, mama, or maybe I’ll go bowling.
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I’m very analytical, I’m very precise. I mean, I don’t write for kids.
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In the ’80s, I was putting out an album virtually every year, I think mostly based on fear – that if I didn’t, people would soon forget about me.
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