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

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

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.

People never ask people doing serious music, 'Do you ever think about doing funny music?'

You fake something until you're good at it.