Al Yankovic

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. ”

When I go to my live shows it's often a multigenerational audience, a family bonding experience. ”

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. ”

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. ”

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. ”

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

As it turns out, there is a thing called the Internet, and stuff does go out there whether the suits like it or not. ”

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

My hobbies just sort of gradually became my vocation. ”

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. ”