I don’t really look at myself as the kind of person who craves attention, but I’ve never been to therapy so there’s probably a lot of stuff about myself that I don’t know.
AL YANKOVICPeople that were a little nerdy in high school would look up to me and know it gets better.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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When I was a kid, I thought I was going to be an architect, because when I was 12 years old I had a guidance counselor that convinced me that that was the best career choice for me.
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I was abducted by some aliens from space who kind a looked like Jamie Farr.
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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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I don’t want to hear about this train being derailed! What happened to ‘The Flintstones’?’
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Ever 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.
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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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About four or five months ago, at a dinner in New York, John made the very nice offer of my being guest editor for an issue of MAD and I thought about it for about half a nanosecond and decided that was a pretty good idea.
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Velvet Elvis never puts on weight.
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I make charts of songs that are good candidates, good targets, so to speak.
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Nows the time to go for all the gusto you can grab. You’ll have plenty of time to be low-key when you’re laid out on the slab.
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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 enjoy all kinds of music. But it is kind of strange when I do parodies, instead of setting up drums and guitar amps.
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I’ll bet every great thinker and leader we’ve got Could see all kinds of things other people could not!
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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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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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