I think I’m equally as abusive as the editors normally are for the “Letters and Tomatoes” column, which is the fan mail part of MAD Magazine and an ongoing feature.
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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It becomes more important to me as time goes on to make every album the best thing I’ve ever done, so it’s a lot of self-imposed pressure that also kind of slows me down a bit.
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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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Until you came along I never dated anyone this low on the food chain.
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I don’t think there are any new media I’d like to cover.
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So that’s why one of my rules of parody writing is that it’s gotta be funny regardless of whether you know the source material. It has to work on its own merit.
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Not only are they just great, nice guys; they’re some of the best musicians you’re likely to find.
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My own personal tastes don’t really have an effect on whether song is a parody target or not. But having said that,
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I’ll be mellow when I’m dead.
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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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I was able to come up with a couple articles for the magazine, I was able to solicit help from a bunch of my friends to contribute pieces: Patton Oswalt, Seth Green, Emo Phillips, Chris Hardwick, John Hodgman, and more.
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I am not making this up. Needless to say, as soon as I discovered that, I gave up meat entirely.
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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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One of the hardest things I’ve had to deal with in my career is keeping my material topical even though I only release albums every three or four years.
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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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They somehow didn’t see the need for an accordion player. That’s when I realized that I had to find my own path in life.
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