Quotes from Al Yankovic

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

You fake something until you're good at it.

It was difficult to get into my friends' rock bands when I was a teenager. They somehow didn't see the need for an accordion player. That's when I realized that I had to find my own path in life.

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

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

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

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

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

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

I try not to go the obvious route all the time, but sometimes the most obvious is actually the best.

I guess I lost a little bit of self-esteem that time that you made it with the whole hockey team.

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.

Somebody will come up to me after a show and have me sign their arm, and the next time I see them my autograph has been permanently inscribed on their arm.

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

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

I like to think that I've gotten better at what I do. I spend more time and pay more attention to detail album after album. But pretty much it's stayed the same.

I decided that I wanted to be a voice on every animated cartoon in the history of the world - even shows that haven't been on the air for a very long time, that's going to be harder to pull off.

It's hard to force creativity and humor.

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

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.

I'm stranded all alone in the gas station of love, and I have to use the self service pump.

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

I love the way they run in fright when I turn on the kitchen light. And when I squish them on the ground, they make a pleasant crunchy sound.