It's hard to force creativity and humor.

My hobbies just sort of gradually became my vocation.

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?'

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

Pop culture's gotten much more disposable.

Probably 90 percent of my albums have polka medleys.

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

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

The irony is of course that my career has lasted a whole lot longer than some of the people I've parodied over the years.

There are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for parody, yet I can't think of a clever enough idea.

There are probably a few library fines I haven't paid yet, but I'm a pretty clean-cut guy overall.

There aren't that many superstars around anymore.

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

Whenever I do a parody it's not meant to make you hate anybody's music really.

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

You fake something until you're good at it.

You still have Top 40 radio now, but it's 40 different stations. There aren't many hits that everybody knows, and there aren't many real superstars.

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 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.