Weird Al Yankovic.

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.

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.

I Have a Long Standing History of Respecting Artists’ Wishes.

I Don’t Think There Are Any New Media I’d Like to Cover.

I Can’t Get Too Offended When Somebody Parodies Me.

I’m Very Analytical, I’m Very Precise. I Mean, I Don’t Write for Kids.

I’m Obviously Not a Rapper, and I Don’t Have Any Claims to Be One, Really.

I Think That Nerds, If You Want to Call Them That, Have Only Gotten More Hip and Assimilated into the Culture.

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.

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.

If Something Is Good Enough, It Can Be Out There and People Will See It.

I’ve Learned How to Use My Spam Filter Pretty Effectively.

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’m Watching the Charts Every Week and Hoping Something Will Pop into My Head.

People That Were a Little Nerdy in High School Would Look up to Me and Know It Gets Better.

People Never Ask People Doing Serious Music, Do You Ever Think About Doing Funny Music?.

My Personal Taste Doesn’t Enter into It a Lot When I Make My Decisions as to What to Parody.

My Hobbies Just Sort of Gradually Became My Vocation.

It’s Hard to Force Creativity and Humor. Pop Culture Has Gotten Much More Disposable.

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.

Some People Want to Advertise Their Weirdness, and Spread It Out, That’s Not Me.

So I’m One of the Few Celebrities That Got to Do a Repeat Performance on the Simpsons, Which I’m Very Flattered By.

Probably 90 Percent of My Albums Have Polka Medleys.

Whenever I Do a Parody It’s Not Meant to Make You Hate Anybody’s Music Really.

When I Go to My Live Shows It’s Often a Multigenerational Audience, a Family Bonding Experience.

There Aren’t That Many Superstars Around Anymore.

There Are Probably a Few Library Fines I Haven’t Paid Yet, but I’m a Pretty Clean Cut Guy Overall.

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.

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.

At This Point, I’ve Got a Bit of a Track Record. so People Realize That When ‘Weird Al’ Wants to Go Parody, It’s Not Meant to Make Them Look Bad… It’s Meant to Be a Tribute.

You Still Have Top 40 Radio Now, but It’s 40 Different Stations. There Aren’t Many Hits That Everybody Knows, and There Aren’t Many Real Superstars.

You Fake Something Until You’re Good at It. You Don’t Need to Be Defined by Your Job.

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 Suppose I Had My Rock Star Fantasies While I Was Singing into My Hairbrush in the Bathroom Mirror, but I Never Really Consciously Said, Okay, This Is What I’m Going to Do for a Living and I’m Going to Be Weird Al..

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.

I Did Have a Child, and I Was Reading a Lot of Picture Books to Her, but at the Same Time Writing a Children’s Book Was Something That I’d Been Wanting to Do for Many Years, Pretty Much Since the Start of My Career.

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.

Like, I Have Had Moments, Which I Think Most People Have, Where You’ll Be Watching TV, and It’ll Be Interrupted by Some Tragic Event, and You’ll Actually Find Yourself Thinking, “I Don’t Want to Hear About This Train Being Derailed! What Happened to ‘the Flintstones’?”.