Weird Al Yankovic Quotes
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There are probably a few library fines I haven't paid yet, but I'm a pretty clean-cut guy overall.
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I'm watching the charts every week and hoping something will pop into my head.
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Some people want to advertise their weirdness, and spread it out, that's not me.
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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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My hobbies just sort of gradually became my vocation.
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Somebody will come up to me after a show and have me sign their arm, and the next time I see them my autograph has been permanently inscribed on their arm.
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People that were a little nerdy in high school would look up to me and know it gets better.
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When I go to my live shows it's often a multigenerational audience, a family bonding experience.
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I 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, and then I'll try and arrange them in a way that they would tell a semi-cohesive story.
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I know now that everything I write, I'm going to put out, and I'll have to live with it for the rest of my life.
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If something is good enough, it can be out there and people will see it.
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People never ask people doing serious music, 'Do you ever think about doing funny music?'
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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, 'I don't want to hear about this train being derailed! What happened to 'The Flintstones?'
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I mean, I don't write for kids.
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One of my pet peeves is that sometimes the talents of my band get overlooked because, and it was the same problem that Frank Zappa had, with a lot of groups that use humor, people don't realize there's a lot of craft behind the comedy.
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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 did have a child, and I was reading a lot of picture books to her, but at the same time writing a children's book was something that I'd been wanting to do for many years, pretty much since the start of my career.
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I think that nerds, if you want to call them that, have only gotten more hip and assimilated into the culture.
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Pop culture's gotten much more disposable.
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You still have Top 40 radio now, but it's 40 different stations. There aren't many hits that everybody knows, and there aren't many real superstars.
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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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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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At this point I've got a bit of a track record. So people realize that when 'Weird Al' wants to go parody, it's not meant to make them look bad... it's meant to be a tribute.
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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.