Quotes from Al Yankovic

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 find it hard to be motivated to do another screenplay right now.

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.

I don't watch a lot of other people's parodies because I don't want to be unduly influenced.

You can try on our suede underwear if you choose. Do what you want, but don't step on my blue suede shoes.

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 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.

It doesn't take a military genius to see we'll all be crispy critters after World War III.

As a wise man once said, "April Fools Day is for amateurs. You NEVER need an excuse to mess with people's heads."

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

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

I don't think there are any new media I'd like to cover.

I write and write and write, and then I edit it down to the parts that I think are amusing, or that help the storyline, or I'll write a notebook full of ideas of anecdotes or story points, and then I'll try and arrange them in a way that they would tell a semi-cohesive story.

I can't get too offended when somebody parodies me.

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

I can bend paper clips into the shapes of small animals.

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

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. It has to work on its own merit.

I know I'm a million times as humble as thou art!

Midget wrestling on channel 3, it costs me 50 bucks a month.

I dated Siamese twins, I slept with Big Foot, too. Get me on Sally Jesse, put me on Donahue.

I'll be mellow when I'm dead.

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.