As a kid, I certainly never thought I would get to spend my life doing something fun.
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.
If I could find the right kind of property, get tied in with the right movie, I'd love to be involved, but I just find it hard to be motivated to do another screenplay right now.
By the time I'm in the studio recording my parody, 10,000 parodies of that song are on YouTube.
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.
Whenever I do a parody it's not meant to make you hate anybody's music really.
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.
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.
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'm still a geek on the inside, that's the important thing.
There aren't that many superstars around anymore.
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.
As much as people are griping about the Internet taking sales away from artists, it's been a huge promotional tool for me.
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 t...
People that were a little nerdy in high school would look up to me and know it gets better.
My hobbies just sort of gradually became my vocation.
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.'
I've learned how to use my spam filter pretty effectively.
Some people want to advertise their weirdness, and spread it out, that's not me.
I'm very analytical, I'm very precise.
