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" I think I was a terrible husband, I think I'm a terrible boyfriend. "

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" There's something really easy and just somehow un-crowded about the Portland airport. Every time I go there I'm like, 'Why is this so easy and sweet?' "

" I'm glad I get to do characters. It's just like a Polaroid shot of whoever the person is, and to me, anyway, that's kind of what life is like. You get a general sense of somebody, and then we're all good, we get it. We understand each other. "

" Prince is my favorite ever. I've liked Prince since... It's been a really long time. Even in junior high. I used to only like punk for a while, and I had all these rules for what kinds of groups were cool, and who was not cool, but as soon as I saw this one Prince video... It just broke all those rules. I was like, 'I love this no matter what.' "

" 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 don't think there's an archetype for the Justin Bieber fan. A Bieber fan just looks like an American. You wouldn't even need a costume to try and resemble one. "

" Something about Portland just really resonated with me. "

" When you're being mean to someone, you can feel the audience just get cold. "

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

" Fereydun, that's my dad's name. My grandmother, my dad's mom, when she was pregnant, she was dating a man from Persia, a Persian gentleman. It wasn't his child, but he was still very supportive and said, 'Hey, this is a great name,' and so it stuck. So that's what she named him. "

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

" 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. "

" I think a comedian has a more specific job. Whereas a musician can fall into different categories, you know, of making background music or doing a soundtrack or wanting to be in a band or writing the song, or writing your own songs. And then comedy is a very black and white thing. You want to make people happy. "

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" Even when I go do comedy stuff live, I can still feel the drummer in me about to go onstage. "

" Music documentaries are tricky because of 'Spinal Tap.' That movie has stood the test of time. "

" The way James Franco goes to new projects, he does it the way an artist should, which is with a question mark. Like, will this work? "

" I want it all... fast. I want to be married, I want to live together... and then somewhere around a year or two years, I get freaked out. I freak out emotionally and then I actually feel like 'Oh my God, who's this stranger in my house?' "

" Art should not be an easy thing. "

" I'm not by nature a cynical person. But sometimes your expectations are different from reality. "

" El Perro del Mar sort of accompanied my time at 'SNL.' To concentrate and focus, I would play the bass to one of her songs from her third album. "

" Every day, I wanna work on being a better person, not just to others but to myself. "

" For me, I would get so frustrated because I would see these other bands just whip by us. "

" I have the capability to have a close relationship with someone. "

" I wanted so badly to be in a famous band, and it was not happening. I played drums with different bands and with the Blue Man Group in Chicago, but I definitely felt like, 'Wow, I did not picture my life being like this.' "

" I started comedy in, like, 1998. "

" At 'SNL' there's framed pictures of all the cast members, and it starts with Dan Aykroyd. It's linear. It just keeps going through all these people, and then you're at the end of it. "

" Questlove redefined what a band can be, and Paul Shaffer and Max Weinberg really put their own spin on it. I bow down to these people. All of them. "

" There's almost no such thing as a hipster. "

" I can only parody stuff I love. "

" No yoga. I can barely sit down. "