I like to think that I've gotten better at what I do. I spend more time and pay more attention to detail album after album. But pretty much it's stayed the same.

It doesn't take a military genius to see we'll all be crispy critters after World War III.

As my father used to tell me, the only true sign of success in life is being able to do for a living that which makes you happy.

In heaven there is no beer. That's why we drink ours here.

If money can't buy happiness, then I guess I'll have to rent it.

You got me stranded on the bungee tower of love.

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

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.

If you want to avoid heated arguments, never discuss religion, politics, or whether the toilet paper roll should go over or under.

As a wise man once said, “April Fools Day is for amateurs. You NEVER need an excuse to mess with people's heads.”

Nows the time to go for all the gusto you can grab. You'll have plenty of time to be low-key when you're laid out on the slab.

To a vampire, there is only selfishness.

You never have to change anything you get up in the middle of the night to write.

The big truth for men is that often we have to leave home in the first half of life before we can return home at a later stage and find our soul there.

In fashion, you have to have perseverance. You have to do it again and again, but it's something that comes out of my heart, and I love it.

I would never do another sitcom. It was so boring I wanted to pull my fingernails off.

In the lexicon of youth which fate reserves for a bright manhood, there is no such word as fail.

I love all kinds of different music.

I'm so lucky, I'm just really grateful for what I've got around me - children and my wife and everything else.

'But the man who is ready to taste every form of knowledge, is glad to learn and never satisfied - he's the man who deserves to be called a philosopher, isn't he?'

Going forward, anything that Richard [Ayoade] asks me to do, I would be so honoured... even if it's sweeping the street because he's such a great person and a great friend.