Al Yankovic
Al Yankovic
Alfred Matthew "Weird Al" Yankovic is an American singer, songwriter, parodist, record producer, satirist, actor, voice actor, music video director, film producer, and author. He is known for his humorous songs that make light of popular culture and often parody specific songs by contemporary musical acts, original songs that are style pastiches of the work of other acts, and polka medleys of several popular songs, featuring his favored instrument, the accordion...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionComedian
Date of Birth23 October 1959
CountryUnited States of America
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.
I mean, I don't write for kids.
A lot of artists have really been supportive over the years.
As a kid, I certainly never thought I would get to spend my life doing something fun.
How can you get bored if the audience is cheering and laughing at something you're doing?
As much as people are griping about the Internet taking sales away from artists, it's been a huge promotional tool for me.
By the time I'm in the studio recording my parody, 10,000 parodies of that song are on YouTube.
I can't get too offended when somebody parodies me.
I do original songs in the style of other artists, where I try to learn all their musical idiosyncrasies and try to do something that sounds like them and yet is a bit more sick and twisted.
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 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 don't think there are any new media I'd like to cover.
I'd like to be able to be more topical and timely and more of-the-moment and I think the way to do that is, instead of waiting until I have twelve songs to release all at once, just to release them as I come up with them.
I have a long-standing history of respecting artists' wishes.