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

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" Every music journalist I've ever met has been stunningly beautiful. "

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

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

" I get very, very little sleep. "

" At 'SNL' there's framed pictures of all the cast members, and it starts with Dan Aykroyd. It's linear. It just keeps going through all these people, and then you're at the end of it. "

" Sometimes in Portland I'm like, 'Who is funding this city?' It's doing great - there's all these new shops; there's a synthesizer store. Where is this coming from? "

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

" 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. "

" 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'd want to direct a video for Yoko Ono. As long as I got to work with Yoko Ono someday, I'd be really happy. I just think she's such a great artist - it would just be so nice. "

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

" There are bands that I am friends with, who will invite me up on stage. Like Les Savy Fav, who have had me on stage, and I have played on their record. There are a couple of bands like that. Yo La Tengo has invited me to play with them. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Missing something doesn't help anything. You can only look at the future, what you can keep doing. "

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

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

" Something about Portland just really resonated with me. "

" 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 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. "

" When 'Pale Fire' came out, that album was a big friend of mine. I've just always purely been a fan of El Perro del Mar. "

" When you're being mean to someone, you can feel the audience just get cold. "

" I really like watching TV at home. "

" Sometimes 'Portlandia' can be pretty traditional. But the stuff I've always loved on 'SNL' has always been the weirdest stuff I've done. The stuff that went on at 10 to 1 in the morning. "

" I want it all... fast. I want to be married, I want to live together... and then somewhere around a year or two years, I get freaked out. I freak out emotionally and then I actually feel like 'Oh my God, who's this stranger in my house?' "

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

" I am opposed to vacations and leisure. I try to make every day a work day. Even if there's nothing on my schedule, I will try do at least one task that is work-related. "