There aren't that many superstars around anymore.
From Al Yankovic
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 think that nerds, if you want to call them that, have only gotten more hip and assimilated into the culture.
My personal taste doesn't enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.
People never ask people doing serious music, 'Do you ever think about doing funny music?'
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 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 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.
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.
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, 'OK, this is what I'm going to do for a living and I'm going to be Weird Al.'
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