Al Yankovic Quotes

The 'rock world' is a lot smaller than it used to be. It's doing a lot less things than it used to be. From Woodstock back in the day and Rage Against the Machine, no one sells millions of records anymore.

Metal needs to be exposed to more people, so it's good for rock if there's bigger bands.

Country music is worldwide - it's not just Nashville and Texas.

I remember, after the New Year's Eve 1991 show, somebody running onto the bus and saying Nirvana had just hit No. 1. I remember thinking, 'Wow; it's on now.' It changed something. We had something to prove - that our band was as good as I thought it was.

I've got lots of friends who are musicians, so if they ask me to do things, I'll go and do it for a laugh. I don't want to be a pop star or anything like that.

The world wants rock bands to be idiots.

When 'American Slang' came out, everyone was like, 'This is the next big band in the world, and this is blah blah blah Bruce Springsteen Junior and blah blah blah,' and I was just like, 'I don't know what that means. I don't know. We'll see.'

Everyone loves to complain that there are no real bands on MTV, yet no one wants to step up to the plate and try to change that.

I'm glad we're not splattered all over MTV, because I don't think that's entirely the right way to go about building a career. Look at Green Day - they were built up - and then came crashing down. The overexposure is just too much of a burnout for most people.

No one cares about anything until it's something that goes viral. It's most certainly frustrating.

A great composition or lyrics no longer decide whether something is good. What matters is, how much has it been seen.

I would not understand when people will tell me that 'Tum hi ho' has got more than 1 million views on YouTube. I was like, 'How does it make a difference?' Later, I would go to YouTube and see songs of Rihanna, Enrique etc. and would see their hits. Then I came to know the importance. Nowadays, you can judge from these sites how big is a sing.

Weird Al is not gonna do a parody of your song if you're not doing it big.

Atlanta is down south, the club. So the most thing played down there is club music. Everybody wants a hit.

'Grand Royal' started because we were on the Lollapalooza tour, and we wanted to send this message to people that the mosh pit is corny. Stop doing that. MTV has ruined it, and it's dangerous, and girls are getting hurt.

As far as Memphis being underrated, I feel like a lot of people have slept on Memphis music when it comes to breaking through into the mainstream.

I guess because we're essentially a two-man band, we're attracting Wham's crowd. But Wham! are more of a businessman's band.

I was really inspired, working with Odd Future.

Most bands that don't want to become big at all, they don't play. If you don't want to be known, if you don't want to make it, don't play. That's the easiest way not to do it.

I know the words to almost every '80s song.

My songs were already a hit track with over 100 million views/comments and multi-hundred thousand downloads on online websites before coming to Bollywood.

Bigger shows, songs on the radio, more people aware of what I'm doing… all that, I'm ready!

In Vietnam, we can go and get big audiences, and we've been going there for so long. A lot of other hip-hop groups don't even go.

I was really big in the '80s.

Touring can get really hard if you're not hitting some fashionable zeitgeist.