Al Yankovic

My hobbies just sort of gradually became my vocation. ↗

— Al Yankovic

#gradually #hobbies #just #sort #vocation

My personal taste doesn't enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody. ↗

— Al Yankovic

#enter #i #into #lot #make

One of the hardest things I've had to deal with in my career is keeping my material topical even though I only release albums every three or four years. ↗

— Al Yankovic

#career #deal #even #every #four

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

— Al Yankovic

#ask #doing #ever #funny #music

People that were a little nerdy in high school would look up to me and know it gets better. ↗

— Al Yankovic

#gets #high #high school #know #little

Pop culture's gotten much more disposable. ↗

— Al Yankovic

#disposable #gotten #more #much #pop

Probably 90 percent of my albums have polka medleys. ↗

— Al Yankovic

#percent #probably

So I'm one of the few celebrities that got to do a repeat performance on 'The Simpsons,' which I'm very flattered by. ↗

— Al Yankovic

#few #flattered #got #i #performance

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

#gotta #know #material #merit #own

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

— Al Yankovic

#me #out #people #some #some people