“Weird Al” Yankovic still looks, well, weird.

During a recent media day in the city, the lanky master of musical satire strolled through the Westin lobby wearing his signature Hawaiian shirt and slip-on shoes. A multihued suitcase complemented his colorful appearance.

But as is always the case with the passage of time, some aspects of Yankovic’s life have changed. For one, being married and the father of a 5-year-old daughter can alter one’s focus.

“That’s sort of the center of my reality,” he says of his family. “I’ve been focusing my spare time on them.”

That means less musical output, though Yankovic scored his highest-charting album and single ever in 2006 with Straight Outta Lynwood and “White & Nerdy” (a cover of Chamillionaire’s “Ridin’”). Despite his new responsibilities, Yankovic says he’s still able to keep a finger on the pulse of pop culture.

“I still manage to discern what’s out there and get me ready for the next shift in the zeitgeist,” he says.

The bigger changes for Yankovic have come in the media industry. The album format has never really worked for a cultural parodist like him. Yankovic hopes to negotiate with his record label to release his musical spoofs by the song so they might resonate in a more timely fashion.

“I have to wait until I have an album’s worth of material, then hopefully come up with a hit single that’s topical,” he says. “I’ve been lucky in the past. It’s a hard puzzle to put together.”

The Internet may have forever altered the way music is disseminated, but it’s also fragmented the listening audience. Now when Yankovic looks for new songs to lampoon, he’s cross-checking charts on everything from album sales to ringtones.

All revolutions aside, Yankovic is essentially still the same oddball who recorded a parody of The Knack’s “My Sharona” called “My Bologna” in the bathroom of the college radio station where he worked as a DJ. Even as he approaches the half-century mark, his timeworn moniker is as true as ever.

“I’ll only get weirder as time goes by,” Yankovic promises. “No shortage of that.”