Quotes By Al Yankovic

My personal taste doesn't enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.

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

So I'm one of the few celebrities that got to do a repeat performance on 'The Simpsons,' which I'm very flattered by.

You don't need to be defined by your job.

People that were a little nerdy in high school would look up to me and know it gets better.

You fake something until you're good at it.

It's hard to force creativity and humor.

There are probably a few library fines I haven't paid yet, but I'm a pretty clean-cut guy overall.

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.

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

In the '80s, I was putting out an album virtually every year, I think mostly based on fear - that if I didn't, people would soon forget about me.

I'm very analytical, I'm very precise.

What kind of morons do you have working at newspapers in Austin that would base an entire review of an artist's performance on whether or not they had a good seat?

One of my pet peeves is that sometimes the talents of my band get overlooked because, and it was the same problem that Frank Zappa had, with a lot of groups that use humor, people don't realize there's a lot of craft behind the comedy.

I'm watching the charts every week and hoping something will pop into my head.

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

When I go to my live shows it's often a multigenerational audience, a family bonding experience.

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.

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 it turns out, there is a thing called the Internet, and stuff does go out there whether the suits like it or not.

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

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.

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.

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

I've done a movie and a TV series, and someday I'd like to do a successful movie and a successful TV series. That would be nice.

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.

I mean, I don't write for kids.

Probably 90 percent of my albums have polka medleys.

As my father used to tell me, the only true sign of success in life is being able to do for a living that which makes you happy.