My process for the parodies is that I get an idea for a song and then get approval from the artist and then go in and record it and probably try to get it out as soon as possible.
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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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 can bend paper clips into the shapes of small animals.
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I make charts of songs that are good candidates, good targets, so to speak.
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It doesn’t take a military genius to see we’ll all be crispy critters after World War III.
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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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I was a huge fan of ‘Mad’ magazine when I was 11, 12, 13 years old. I’d scour used bookstores trying to find back issues, and I’d wait at the newsstand for a new issue to come out. My life revolved around it.
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There’s a lot of different ways that a song would be a challenge to parody.
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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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How can you get bored if the audience is cheering and laughing at something you’re doing?
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In fact, when I come up with an idea for a parody I try to resist the urge to Google the idea to see if someone has done it already because the answer is almost always, “Yes, of course they have, they’ve thought of it!”
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I’ve always known that if I recorded an album, it would come out, and people would enjoy it!
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I always try to put myself out of my comfort zone and out of my depth, and hopefully somewhere along the line I’ll catch up.
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I’m very analytical, I’m very precise.
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Beans, beans, the magic legumes – the more you ingest, the more you consume.
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Buy our album, were Nirvana, a garage band from Seattle. Well, it sure beats raising cattle.
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