People that were a little nerdy in high school would look up to me and know it gets better. – Al Yankovic
When I go to my live shows it’s often a multigenerational audience, a family bonding experience. – Al Yankovic
As it turns out, there is a thing called the Internet, and stuff does go out there whether the suits like it or not. – Al Yankovic
I don’t really look at myself as the kind of person who craves attention, but I’ve never been to therapy so there’s probably a lot of stuff about myself that I don’t know. – Al Yankovic
If I could find the right kind of property, get tied in with the right movie, I’d love to be involved, but I just find it hard to be motivated to do another screenplay right now. – Al Yankovic
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. – Al Yankovic
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. – Al Yankovic
I make charts of songs that are good candidates, good targets, so to speak. Then I try to come up with ideas for parodies. And 99% of those ideas are horrible. – Al Yankovic
There are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for parody, yet I can’t think of a clever enough idea. – Al Yankovic
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. – Al Yankovic
By the time I’m in the studio recording my parody, 10,000 parodies of that song are on YouTube. – Al Yankovic
People never ask people doing serious music, ‘Do you ever think about doing funny music?’ – Al Yankovic
I think that nerds, if you want to call them that, have only gotten more hip and assimilated into the culture. – Al Yankovic
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. – Al Yankovic