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" I would never play a character that wasn't true. It's not a moral thing; it's just that it's more convincing if it's a little bit like me. "

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" I really loved touring with my band, but it felt like we would spend a lot of time playing in empty rooms - empty clubs. We had some good successes, but it's so physically hard to load up a van and drive all day. "

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

" I really like Au Revoir Simone. "

" Before 'SNL,' I would do stand-up, opening for Jeff Tweedy. It was worse than bombing in that people were dead silent. "

" My mom is from Venezuela, and my dad is German and Japanese, and we lived in Brazil when I was a kid for a couple of years, and then I grew up on Long Island. I think all the traveling and all the nationalities put that stuff in my head. I was just around it a lot. "

" 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 started comedy in, like, 1998. "

" Bill Hader does a really good impression of me. "

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

" 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. "

" When people say that L.A. doesn't have a culture, I think it really does: a very old culture, and very specific. There's streets named after entertainers, and statues of entertainers, and it's great. Entertainment is still art, even if it makes billions of dollars. So it's like a city built on entertainment, and art in a way. "

" I'm so glad cities have personalities, just like people have personalities. That's something that makes me smile. "

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

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

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

" There should be comedians who perform only for robots - I'm saying human comedians that only perform for robots. "

" 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. "

" All of my memories are now on hard drives. I'll change phones or I'll change my laptop, and all my photos stay. "

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

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" James Franco has turned his life into a real art project. In my opinion, that's the way to live. "

" That's one of the great things about Los Angeles, that people just play music, and it's all very welcoming and welcomed. "

" The Long Island experience is so strange. You're a satellite around the city, so the presence of the city is always looming. "

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

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

" 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 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. "

" I like to think Portland and L.A. are not rivals; they're cousins. As cities on the West Coast, they're distinct in their own way but still culturally similar. "