Al Yankovic Quotes

The reason I put make-up on or wear the costume is to try and find my own style. It's like my guitar style - I'm just trying to be an original artist.

My music is a whole reflection of who I'm as an individual.

I think I'm just doing me, my music, my shows, and my stories.

I feel like it's important, especially at young age, to find exactly what it is that makes your style so important as opposed to just trying to fit into the iconic styles of performers out there.

I am not reggae, I am me. I am bigger than the limits that are put on me. It all has to do with the individual journey.

The best advice I've received is to be yourself. The best artists do that.

I'm just an artist and I'm doin' what I like to do.

An album is such a personal thing. It's something I always wanted to do. It's me doing me, singing as me.

There's no way to describe what I do. It's just me.

If people want to know who I am, it is all in the work.

I had to find my own language in jewelry. That was important to me; it really had to be what I would love to have myself.

I think maybe one day I'll go back to music. I don't know. I don't know if sometimes you lose a passion or you don't lose it, it becomes more personal and less about sharing it with everyone.

The people that have inspired me the most were dancers and choreographers. Even growing up, if I dealt with any pressure to be a certain way, I knew that as an artistic lane, dancing was the one that was a little more freed up - like, no one in my family is really doing that; I can be that person.

I never really felt like I quite fit in. Other boys were playing sports and into hunting and stereotypically masculine activities. I was always more attracted to the arts. I loved to dance, I loved to sing, and I always knew I would be an actor. I don't really know why.

I don't think that there's much that sets me apart from other musicians, but I think there are definitely things that set me apart from other kinds of artists.

Note that this journey is uniquely yours, no one else's. So the path has to be your own. You cannot imitate somebody else's journey and still be true to yourself. Are you prepared to honor your uniqueness in this way?

Don't worry if people think you're good. Make this your experience. And find out what makes you unique as an artist. You don't get the opportunity to do that as much in the real world.

Never follow somebody else's path; it doesn't work the same way twice for anyone.

We all must follow a different path to let our light shine, and that's what makes us so unpredictable and unique.

All the traumas I went through separating art from writing don't exist anymore. That's why I love being in rock 'n' roll. It's a whole life thing.

Each person is different and each one will reach God by his or her own path.

I had no ambition when I was a kid other than to play guitar and get in a rock 'n' roll band. I don't really like to be the guy in the white suit at the front. Like in the Beatles, I was the one who kept quiet at the back and let the other egos be at the front.

My voice likes rock music. My problem is, I can do a lot of things, but I have to find my own voice.

I'm just a guitarist in a kick-ass rock and roll band. What more could I ask for?

I don't want to be a playwright, I want to be a rock and roll star.