I have a long-standing history of respecting artists' wishes.
People that were a little nerdy in high school would look up to me and know it gets better.
I don't think there are any new media I'd like to cover.
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.
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.
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.
My personal taste doesn't enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.
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.
Whenever I do a parody it's not meant to make you hate anybody's music really.
By the time I'm in the studio recording my parody, 10,000 parodies of that song are on YouTube.
I did have a child, and I was reading a lot of picture books to her, but at the same time writing a children's book was something that I'd been wanting to do for many years, pretty much since the start of my career.
If I could find the right kind of property, get tied in with the right movie, I'd love to be involved, but I just find it hard to be motivated to do another screenplay right now.
As a kid, I certainly never thought I would get to spend my life doing something fun.
There aren't that many superstars around anymore.
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.
One of the hardest things I've had to deal with in my career is keeping my material topical even though I only release albums every three or four years.
I've done a movie and a TV series, and someday I'd like to do a successful movie and a successful TV series. That would be nice.
