My personal taste doesn't enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.

Whenever I do a parody it's not meant to make you hate anybody's music really.

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.

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.

The irony is of course that my career has lasted a whole lot longer than some of the people I've parodied over the years.

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.