Al Yankovic

People say releasing an album is like giving birth, but it’s more like having a gallbladder operation.

— Al Yankovic

How can you get bored if the audience is cheering and laughing at something you're doing?

— Al Yankovic

My brothers and sisters hated me because I was an only child.

— Al Yankovic

The music has always been my bread and butter, and I've focused more of my attention on that.

— Al Yankovic

If money can't buy happiness, then I guess I'll have to rent it.

— Al Yankovic

As a kid, I certainly never thought I would get to spend my life doing something fun.

— Al Yankovic

I've always enjoyed animation and voiceover work. That's something that I've been proactive about.

— Al Yankovic

I know now that everything I write, I'm going to put out, and I'll have to live with it for the rest…

— Al Yankovic

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

I mean, I hate to gloat, but I'm extremely satisfied with my position in life and the way things have worked out…

— Al Yankovic

My process for the parodies is that I get an idea for a song and then get approval from the artist and…

— Al Yankovic

I start with a comprehensive list of all the recent songs that have been big hits - and then I go down…

— Al Yankovic

I've done a movie and a TV series, and someday I'd like to do a successful movie and a successful TV series.…

— Al Yankovic

Not any specific one, but I was a huge fan of Frank Jacobs, I guess he wrote the plurality of the song…

— Al Yankovic

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

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…

— Al Yankovic

One of my pet peeves is that sometimes the talents of my band get overlooked because, and it was the same problem…

— Al Yankovic

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

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

I was able to come up with a couple articles for the magazine, I was able to solicit help from a bunch…

— Al Yankovic

I tend to enunciate pretty well. It's always seemed that my voice is one of those voices that people can recognize pretty…

— Al Yankovic

I write and write and write, and then I edit it down to the parts that I think are amusing, or that…

— Al Yankovic

I cut my teeth playing rock songs on the accordion when I was a teenager and my friends always thought that was…

— Al Yankovic

I've learned how to use my spam filter pretty effectively.

— Al Yankovic

There's enough people that do unfunny music. I'll leave the serious stuff to Paris Hilton and Kevin Federline.

— Al Yankovic

I do a lot of different things, sometimes at the same time, and it's very difficult to figure out where I fit.

— Al Yankovic

I have a long-standing history of respecting artists' wishes.

— Al Yankovic

Some people want to advertise their weirdness, and spread it out, that's not me.

— Al Yankovic

Right now I'm listening to a lot of Top 40 music, because THAT'S MY JOB.

— Al Yankovic

People never ask people doing serious music, 'Do you ever think about doing funny music?'

— Al Yankovic

When I swore that you're getting more and more beautiful everyday. Well, I was only kidding, honey.

— Al Yankovic

I'm known for being an up, high-energy, and optimistic kind of guy.

— Al Yankovic

Beans, beans, the magic legumes - the more you ingest, the more you consume.

— Al Yankovic

Whenever I do a parody it's not meant to make you hate anybody's music really.

— Al Yankovic

By the time I'm in the studio recording my parody, 10,000 parodies of that song are on YouTube.

— Al Yankovic

If something is good enough, it can be out there and people will see it.

— Al Yankovic

I'm still a geek on the inside, that's the important thing.

— Al Yankovic

I'm obviously not a rapper, and I don't have any claims to be one, really.

— Al Yankovic

I don't like to label myself. I know I'm very hard to pigeonhole.

— Al Yankovic

A lot of my cartoon voices are basically just variations on my natural voice.

— Al Yankovic