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 write and write and write, and then I edit it down to the parts that I think are amusing, or that help the storyline, or I’ll write a notebook full of ideas of anecdotes or story points.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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I do a lot of different things, sometimes at the same time, and it’s very difficult to figure out where I fit.
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I’m stranded all alone in the gas station of love, and I have to use the self service pump.
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On the other hand, I can get all the Metallica songs I want for FREE! WOW!
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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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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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By the time I’m in the studio recording my parody, 10,000 parodies of that song are on YouTube.
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I don’t like to label myself. I know I’m very hard to pigeonhole.
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A lot of artists have really been supportive over the years.
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I enjoy all kinds of music. But it is kind of strange when I do parodies, instead of setting up drums and guitar amps.
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It’s very much a “Weird Al” themed issue, so I’d like to think that there’s a lot of “Weird Al” flavor throughout but I think it’d be generous really to call me an editor.
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Buy our album, were Nirvana, a garage band from Seattle. Well, it sure beats raising cattle.
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As my father used to tell me, the only true sign of success in life is being able to do for a living that which makes you happy.
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When I swore that you’re getting more and more beautiful everyday. Well, I was only kidding, honey.
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What kind of morons do you have working at newspapers in Austin that would base an entire review of an artist’s performance on whether or not they had a good seat?
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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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