Occupation: Singer-Songwriter Birth: October 23, 1959
You got me stranded on the bungee tower of love..
Ever since the day you left me, I've been so miserable, my dear. I feel almost as bad as I did when you were still here..
I'm watching the charts every week and hoping something will pop into my head..
Velvet Elvis never puts on weight..
I'm very analytical, I'm very precise. I mean, I don't write for kids..
I don't watch a lot of other people's parodies because I don't want to be unduly influenced..
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..
That's something the kids should know about. Reading is a gateway to witchcraft and lesbianism..
I'm a music fan, and I can listen to the radio, or music, without thinking, "How am I going to screw this up?" [Laughs] If I'm really actively trying….
Until you came along I never dated anyone this low on the food chain..
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 k….
I'm still a geek on the inside, that's the important thing..
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….
There's enough people that do unfunny music. I'll leave the serious stuff to Paris Hilton and Kevin Federline..
There's a lot of different ways that a song would be a challenge to parody. There are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for pa….
I try not to go the obvious route all the time, but sometimes the most obvious is actually the best..
I'm always a little leery about doing shows where I'm not the headliner because when I first started playing in 1982 I opened for Missing Persons and….
Didn't have Nintendo, we just poured salt on snails..
My process for the parodies is that I get an idea for a song and then get approval from the artist and then go in and record it and probably try to g….
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 newssta….