Top 59 Quotes by Al Yankovic

The irony is of course that my career has lasted a whole lot longer than some of the people I've parodied over the years.

As much as people are griping about the Internet taking sales away from artists, it's been a huge promotional tool for me.

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.

I think that nerds, if you want to call them that, have only gotten more hip and assimilated into the culture.

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

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

A lot of artists have really been supportive over the years.

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.

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.

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 every three or four years.