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

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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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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" I love 'Saturday Night Live,' and I really feel like people who have left before me have always stayed with the show. They never really quite left, which is nice. Everyone kind of stays close. "

" 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?' "

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