Yankovic: "I'm still a geek on the inside, that's the important thing."

Yankovic: "So that's why one of my rules of parody writing is that it's gotta be funny regardless of whether you know the source material. It has to work on its own merit."

Yankovic: "I think that nerds, if you want to call them that, have only gotten more hip and assimilated into the culture."

Yankovic: "It's hard to really articulate what the parameters are that make one song parody-able and another song not, but if I can come up with a good enough idea for it, I go for it, and if not, then I have to move on."

Yankovic: "It's hard to force creativity and humor."

Yankovic: "One of my pet peeves is that sometimes the talents of my band get overlooked because, and it was the same problem that Frank Zappa had, with a lot of groups that use humor, people don't realize there's a lot of craft behind the comedy."

Yankovic: "I can't get too offended when somebody parodies me."

Yankovic: "In the '80s, I was putting out an album virtually every year, I think mostly based on fear - that if I didn't, people would soon forget about me."

Yankovic: "You fake something until you're good at it."

Yankovic: "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."

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

Yankovic: "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.'"

Yankovic: "I mean, I hate to gloat, but I'm extremely satisfied with my position in life and the way things have worked out for me."