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" I will always consider myself a punk because of those experiences in high school. It will always be a part of me. "

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" I don't know anything about the wine world at all. "

" I feel like Miami is way, way too hot. "

" I travel a lot. I'll go back and forth, you know, West Coast-East Coast, but it's separated by segments. So it's not a daily thing. "

" I believe in limitations. I think the worst art ever made - in my opinion, because it's all so subjective - is where the artist had complete freedom. "

" I have a problem with sweets. I have an inability to eat a just little bit. It's almost like I can't even enjoy chocolate anymore - I have to stuff it into my brain, cram it into my ears. "

" When I first started going to Portland, people told me about Stumptown. They were like 'Oh, it's the best coffee,' and I thought, 'How good could it really be?' I'm like, 'Sure, great, uh... I'd love to see it.' But then when I went, it truly, I am not kidding, is the best coffee I have ever had. "

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" 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. "

" I really like Au Revoir Simone. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" When I used to see Rick Moranis do something, to me that was immediately funny. Or George Carlin or Martin Lawrence. "

" I have an inability to relax. I try to make every day a work day. I get pleasure from work... I try to think of sketch ideas, stand-up pieces. I am incapable of leisure and leisure time. "

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

" I would see people on TV, or I'd see bands I really liked, and I thought, 'I want that.' "

" I try to maintain a high level of coolness. Which means I've gotta look at lot of magazines. I've gotta look at a lot of ads to see what people want to wear. "

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

" I spent most of my 20s playing music. I was in a band, and we worked really hard and did not get very far. "

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

" 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. "

" I love my bandmates, and they're my friends, and even though we had fun and got to tour and I got to play the drums a lot, which I'll always appreciate, we had a really rough time. We toured and tried to get people to come to our shows and put out records, and we really struggled. "

" 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. "

" You have to understand how lucky I feel. I was on 'Saturday. Night. Live.' I played with the Clash! On what planet would I look at anything in my life in any less-than-stellar way? "

" My problem is with intimacy. That's where I have my biggest problems. "

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

" I learned at 'SNL' that it's a bummer to bum people out. "