So I try not to pick songs that I know would drive me crazy.
AL YANKOVICSo I try not to pick songs that I know would drive me crazy.
AL YANKOVICIn 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.
AL YANKOVICI’m known for being an up, high-energy, and optimistic kind of guy.
AL YANKOVICThen I try to come up with ideas for parodies. And 99% of those ideas are horrible.
AL YANKOVICNo Joni Mitchell 8 track tapes in my car.
AL YANKOVICI make charts of songs that are good candidates, good targets, so to speak.
AL YANKOVICThat’s a big part of my life – doing things that I’m not prepared to do.
AL YANKOVICI tend to enunciate pretty well. It’s always seemed that my voice is one of those voices that people can recognize pretty easily – which has been a bit of a drawback for some characters.
AL YANKOVICI’ve always enjoyed animation and voiceover work. That’s something that I’ve been proactive about.
AL YANKOVICYou fake something until you’re good at it.
AL YANKOVICBy the time I’m in the studio recording my parody, 10,000 parodies of that song are on YouTube.
AL YANKOVICEvery night for dinner we had a big chunk of dirt.
AL YANKOVICUntil you came along I never dated anyone this low on the food chain.
AL YANKOVICI’d rather clean all the bathrooms in Grand Central Station with my tongue than spend one more minute with you.
AL YANKOVICI don’t think there are any new media I’d like to cover.
AL YANKOVICGot a brand new semi-automatic weapon with a laser sight. Oh, I’m praying that somebody tries to break in here tonight.
AL YANKOVIC