I’m a music fan, and I can listen to the radio, or music, without thinking, “How am I going to screw this up?” [Laughs] If I’m really actively trying to think of a parody, then I’ll have my antenna out, and be a little more proactive about it.
AL YANKOVICI am not making this up. Needless to say, as soon as I discovered that, I gave up meat entirely.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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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.
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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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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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I can’t say enough good things about my band. I feel very fortunate that I found them when I did, very early in my career.
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Doing things that I don’t know how to do, and keep doing them until I get good at them.
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My brothers and sisters hated me because I was an only child.
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I don’t think there are any new media I’d like to cover.
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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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Because you’re supposed to lose yourself in the character, but sometimes people look at a character and go “Oh, it’s ‘Weird Al.'”
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I like the guitar-driven music of Nirvana at its peak. At that point, I thought there was a lot of really exciting music coming out.
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I don’t watch anything on a regular basis – I tend to binge-watch things.
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Some songs are too repetitive for me to be able to fashion a humorous set of lyrics around. Some songs flat-out just don’t work creatively for me.
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So then why get upset if somebody like me Tries to look at the world just a bit differently?
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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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After that, I made the decision to headline no matter what, even if I was playing to seven people. I wanted people to be there to see me.
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