Quotes by Thinking Like, I have had moments, which I think most people have, where you'll be watching TV, and it'll be interrupted by some tragic event, and you'll actually find yourself thinking, 'I don't want to hear about this train being derailed! What happened to 'The Flintstones'?' Al Yankovic finding-yourselfpeoplethinking People never ask people doing serious music, 'Do you ever think about doing funny music?' Al Yankovic funnypeoplethinking I don't think there are any new media I'd like to cover. Al Yankovic new-mediamediathinking 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. Al Yankovic peopleyearsthinking I'm free to do what I please, I'm probably not going to do albums. Just because I think releasing tracks as singles is a better way for me to stay topical. Al Yankovic albumstrackthinking I was able to come up with a couple articles for the magazine, I was able to solicit help from a bunch of my friends to contribute pieces: Patton Oswalt, Seth Green, Emo Phillips, Chris Hardwick, John Hodgman, and more. It's very much a "Weird Al" themed issue, so I'd like to think that there's a lot of "Weird Al" flavor throughout but I think it'd be generous really to call me an editor. Al Yankovic emocouplethinking I think I'm equally as abusive as the editors normally are for the "Letters and Tomatoes" column, which is the fan mail part of MAD Magazine and an ongoing feature. Al Yankovic madeditorsthinking Sometimes I get, "Have you ever thought about doing real music?" I like to think the music I do is real, it just happens to be funny. Al Yankovic realsometimesthinking I'm a music fan, and I can listen to the radio, or music, without thinking, "How am I going to screw this up?" [Laughs] If I'm really actively trying to think of a parody, then I'll have my antenna out, and be a little more proactive about it. Al Yankovic tryinglaughingthinking 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. Al Yankovic detailsalbumsthinking I'd like to be able to be more topical and timely and more of-the-moment and I think the way to do that is, instead of waiting until I have twelve songs to release all at once, just to release them as I come up with them. Al Yankovic waitingsongthinking I think we need a huge dose of love. Ala Bashir loveneedsthinking The best crime novels are all based on people keeping secrets. All lying - you may think a lie is harmless, but you put them all together and there's a calamity. Alafair Burke crime-novelslyingthinking We don't really learn anything properly until there is a problem, until we are in pain, until something fails to go as we had hoped ... We suffer, therefore we think. Alain de Botton painsufferingthinking Sweetness is the opposite of machismo, which is everywhere-and I really don't get on with machismo. I'm interested in sensitivity, and weakness, and fear, and anxiety, because I think that, at the end of the day, behind our masks, that's what we are. Alain de Botton anxietyoppositesthinking The only people we can think of as normal are those we don't yet know very well. Alain de Botton normalpeoplethinking Socrates, on being insulted in the marketplace, asked by a passerby, "Don't you worry about being called names?" retorted, "Why? Do you think I should resent it if an ass had kicked me? Alain de Botton namesworrythinking Everyone returns us to a different sense of ourselves, for we become a little of who they think we are. Alain de Botton returndifferentthinking Endeavoring to purchase something we think beautiful may in fact be the most unimaginative way of dealing with the longing it excites in us, just as trying to sleep with someone may be the bluntest response to a feeling of love. Alain de Botton sleepbeautifulthinking The mind does most of its best thinking when we aren't there. The answers are there in the morning. Alain de Botton mindmorningthinking«6061626364656667686970»
