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

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" Everyone knows deep in their hearts that the drums are the coolest instrument, and that a band is only as good as its drummer. So I'm all for drum solos. I'm all for drummers hamming it up. I'm all for drummers standing up and kicking over the kit. "

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

" Talking Heads were a big influence on my comedy. For David Byrne, every album had to be different. With 'Portlandia,' every season has to be different. You gotta reinvent the look, all of it. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I loooved Sleater-Kinney like a crazy person. "

" 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 take any project on a month or two at a time. Meaning, I don't think too far ahead. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" One person who was interesting was Jello Biafra, who was - of all things - very professional! "

" 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.' "

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

" 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'm obsessed with my 20s. I buy things that I wanted in my 20s. It's weird; it's a weird thing that I didn't grow out of. "

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

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

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

" I was actually late to the punk movement because I was too young. "

" 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 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. "

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

" Art should not be an easy thing. "

" 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. "

" No yoga. I can barely sit down. "

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