Somebody will come up to me after a show and have me sign their arm, and the next time I see them… — Al Yankovic Copy Share Image
I make charts of songs that are good candidates, good targets, so to speak. Then I try to come up with ideas… — Al Yankovic Copy Share Image
I was able to come up with a couple articles for the magazine, I was able to solicit help from a bunch… — Al Yankovic Copy Share Image
In fact, when I come up with an idea for a parody I try to resist the urge to Google the idea… — Al Yankovic Copy Share Image
I'd like to be able to be more topical and timely and more of-the-moment and I think the way to do that… — Al Yankovic Copy Share Image
I start with a comprehensive list of all the recent songs that have been big hits - and then I go down… — Al Yankovic Copy Share Image
It's hard to really articulate what the parameters are that make one song parody-able and another song not, but if I can… — Al Yankovic Copy Share Image
It's hard to say, I picked one of my favorite articles for the MAD vault. Which is one of the features of… — Al Yankovic Copy Share Image
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… — Al Yankovic Copy Share
My personal taste doesn't enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody. — Al Yankovic Copy Share
So I'm one of the few celebrities that got to do a repeat performance on 'The Simpsons,' which I'm very flattered by. — Al Yankovic Copy Share
Somebody will come up to me after a show and have me sign their arm, and the next time I see them my autograph… — Al Yankovic Copy Share
People say releasing an album is like giving birth, but it’s more like having a gallbladder operation. — Al Yankovic Copy Share
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.… — Al Yankovic Copy Share
I write and write and write, and then I edit it down to the parts that I think are amusing, or that help the… — Al Yankovic Copy Share
I have very mixed feelings about it. On one hand, I’m concerned that the rampant downloading of my copyright-protected material over the Internet is… — Al Yankovic Copy Share
There are probably a few library fines I haven't paid yet, but I'm a pretty clean-cut guy overall. — Al Yankovic Copy Share
In the '80s, I was putting out an album virtually every year, I think mostly based on fear - that if I didn't, people… — Al Yankovic Copy Share
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… — Al Yankovic Copy Share
I can't say enough good things about my band. I feel very fortunate that I found them when I did, very early in my… — Al Yankovic Copy Share
Sometimes I get, "Have you ever thought about doing real music?" I like to think the music I do is real, it just happens… — Al Yankovic Copy Share
