I have very mixed feelings about it. On one hand, I’m concerned that the rampant downloading of my copyright-protected material over the… — Al Yankovic Copy Share Image
I do original songs in the style of other artists, where I try to learn all their musical idiosyncrasies and try to… — Al Yankovic Copy Share Image
I cut my teeth playing rock songs on the accordion when I was a teenager and my friends always thought that was… — 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
Not any specific one, but I was a huge fan of Frank Jacobs, I guess he wrote the plurality of the song… — Al Yankovic Copy Share Image
There are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for parody, yet I can't think of a clever… — 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
My own personal tastes don't really have an effect on whether song is a parody target or not. But having said that,… — Al Yankovic Copy Share Image
There's a lot of different ways that a song would be a challenge to parody. There are a lot of songs that… — Al Yankovic Copy Share Image
My process for the parodies is that I get an idea for a song and then get approval from the artist and… — 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
By the time I'm in the studio recording my parody, 10,000 parodies of that song are on YouTube. — 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 Image
My personal taste doesn't enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody. — Al Yankovic Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
People say releasing an album is like giving birth, but it’s more like having a gallbladder operation. — Al Yankovic Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
