Al Yankovic

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

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

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

“When I was a kid, I thought I was going to be an architect, because when I was 12 years old I had a guidance counselor that convinced me that that was the best career choice for me.”

“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.”

“Pop culture's gotten much more disposable.”

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

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

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

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

“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 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.”

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

“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.”

“There aren't that many superstars around anymore.”

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

“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.”

“It's hard to really articulate what the parameters are that make one song parody-able and another song not, but if I can come up with a good enough idea for it, I go for it, and if not, then I have to move on.”

“My hobbies just sort of gradually became my vocation.”