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

- Al Yankovic

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.

- Al Yankovic

You fake something until you're good at it.

- Al Yankovic

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.

- Al Yankovic

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

- Al Yankovic

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.

- Al Yankovic

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

- Al Yankovic

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.

- Al Yankovic

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

- Al Yankovic

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.

- Al Yankovic

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

- Al Yankovic

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.

- Al Yankovic

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.

- Al Yankovic

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.

- Al Yankovic

My hobbies just sort of gradually became my vocation.

- Al Yankovic

People never ask people doing serious music, 'Do you ever think about doing funny music?'

- Al Yankovic

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

- Al Yankovic

Some people want to advertise their weirdness, and spread it out, that's not me.

- Al Yankovic

There aren't that many superstars around anymore.

- Al Yankovic

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.

- Al Yankovic