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" I work better when I'm juggling projects. Nothing worse than watching someone really embrace what they're doing if they love it too much. "

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" I started comedy in, like, 1998. "

" People on the street comment on how handsome I am. You know, people stop and say how angular my face is. "

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

" 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. "

" I will admit that I purposely stress myself out. But I think I like stressing myself out. There's a glamour to, like, 'I've got to get to the airport!' I just like the caricature. "

" 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. "

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" As a kid, 'The Monkees' was such a cool show. I had such a thrill saying, 'OMG, I was in a sketch with one of the Monkees.' "

" Steve Jobs was a real rock star to me. I looked forward to his products like people look forward to albums. "

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" Panned or not, 'Dune' is a real part of science-fiction filmmaking. "

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

Surround Yourself

" I am immediately disinterested when I hear mountain-climbing stories. "

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

" I've met Tony Danza. He was really nice. And he looks... I feel like he hasn't aged. He looks exactly the same. He's just Tony Danza. He's exactly the same as he's always been. "

" I get very, very little sleep. "

" 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 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 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. "

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

" 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? "

" I find it weird to use my own voice on TV. "

" 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? "

" When I'm hungry, I need to eat right away. "