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" Every music journalist I've ever met has been stunningly beautiful. "

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" I feel really lucky to get to do comedy, and music, at all. I want to do as much as I can. "

" When you're in a band, you spend most of your time in a van. Like, there were four of us, we toured all the time, and you're stuck looking at three other people for a month straight. And all of those times, we all just liked making fun of people, doing impressions of people, coming up with songs. "

" I can't relax. I'm not happy unless I'm working on stuff. 'SNL' is always a huge workload, as enjoyable as it is. "

" There are people who are genetically made to start record labels, and I'm not one of those people. People just have it in their blood and are good at it. Corey Rusk from Touch and Go and Ian MacKaye. These are people who have made their own labels. "

" There's no judgment on bands that continue on who aren't popular; some people get enjoyment out of it. I'm just not one of those people. "

" My showbiz career started with 'SNL,' and to write an 'SNL' book... well, there are already enough of those. "

" You should approach everything in life like, 'What is this?' "

" I really like Au Revoir Simone. "

" I love painters because I don't paint, so I get to enjoy art; I like collecting paintings. "

" I was really close to being this guy who used to be in this band who is still playing and trying to get some recordings together, but I got really lucky. "

" I get very, very little sleep. "

" Discomfort is the way to go if you want to make something you feel is worthwhile. "

" The day of parts of the country hating each other, or rivalries like that... I feel like that's dead. "

" I actually, legitimately feel that I'm not busy enough. I want to be so busy that it's overwhelming. "

" Over the years, El Perro del Mar became this artist that, every record that came out, I just loved it. "

" I came away from 'Saturday Night Live' feeling very well represented. I felt, and I still feel like, they let me do so much stuff that I wanted to do. Stuff that I almost didn't even know what it was. "

" I really like watching TV at home. "

" One person who was interesting was Jello Biafra, who was - of all things - very professional! "

" I see everything as a positive that can only help me. "

" Missing something doesn't help anything. You can only look at the future, what you can keep doing. "

" No yoga. I can barely sit down. "

" There are bands that I am friends with, who will invite me up on stage. Like Les Savy Fav, who have had me on stage, and I have played on their record. There are a couple of bands like that. Yo La Tengo has invited me to play with them. "

" I tend to think that there is a sophistication to everything at 'Saturday Night Live,' including the sketches. "

" My father came from Germany. My mom came from Venezuela. My father's culturally German, but his father was Japanese. I was raised in New York and spent two years in Rio. My parents met at the University of Southern Mississippi, and they had me there, and then we moved to New York. I'm not very familiar with Mississippi. "

" Everyone knows deep in their hearts that the drums are the coolest instrument, and that a band is only as good as its drummer. So I'm all for drum solos. I'm all for drummers hamming it up. I'm all for drummers standing up and kicking over the kit. "

" My favorite album is 'Ram' by Paul and Linda McCartney. "

" Hopefully there will be a day when all comedy is all robots. "

" We almost called the 'Portlandia' show 'Stumptown.' That was the original name. "

" I was impersonating people way, way, way early, as far back as I can remember. And I would do people on my street for my parents, I remember. And in school, I did the same thing with all the teachers. It was just like, I mean, it was something I loved to do. I don't think there was a time when I wasn't doing it. I was always doing it. "

" Surround yourself with people you like and respect; surround yourself with people you just want to be around and keep making things. "

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