My velvet Elvis means the world to me. Although he may not be worth much dough, he means more to me than some old Rembrandt or Van Gogh.
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.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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I make charts of songs that are good candidates, good targets, so to speak.
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Then I try to come up with ideas for parodies. And 99% of those ideas are horrible.
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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’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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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 rap songs don’t usually have a lot of melody per se.
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I’d rather clean all the bathrooms in Grand Central Station with my tongue than spend one more minute with you.
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I don’t like to label myself. I know I’m very hard to pigeonhole.
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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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You slammed my face down on the barbecue grill, now my scars are all healing, but my heart never will.
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I don’t watch anything on a regular basis – I tend to binge-watch things.
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My personal taste doesn’t enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.
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You still have Top 40 radio now, but it’s 40 different stations. There aren’t many hits that everybody knows, and there aren’t many real superstars.
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I knew we were having problems when you put those piranhas in my bathtub again.
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If I could find the right kind of property, get tied in with the right movie, I’d love to be involved, but I just find it hard to be motivated to do another screenplay right now.
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