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" When punk came along, it made perfect sense to me. I found it melodic. The Clash, Buzzcocks. "

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

" I've always been a fan of instructional videos. The bass-player ones are insane. The music on them is fascinating. It's not something you hear on CDs or would really ever play in bands. You listen to it and are like, 'What is happening?' It's this blizzard of notes in weird time signatures, and they're trying to teach you that. "

" I'm glad I get to do characters. It's just like a Polaroid shot of whoever the person is, and to me, anyway, that's kind of what life is like. You get a general sense of somebody, and then we're all good, we get it. We understand each other. "

" I spent a lot of time lifting my drums into a van, playing to ten people night after night. I can't complain about anything now. That stuff was heavy. "

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

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

" 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.' "

" Fereydun, that's my dad's name. My grandmother, my dad's mom, when she was pregnant, she was dating a man from Persia, a Persian gentleman. It wasn't his child, but he was still very supportive and said, 'Hey, this is a great name,' and so it stuck. So that's what she named him. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I don't think there's an archetype for the Justin Bieber fan. A Bieber fan just looks like an American. You wouldn't even need a costume to try and resemble one. "

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

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

" The bands that were big in '77, like the Clash and the Sex Pistols and Talking Heads, I got into them in the early '80s. And it changed my life. It got into my DNA. "

" I think Ian MacKaye is everything that I always wanted to be. "

" The day of parts of the country hating each other, or rivalries like that... I feel like that's dead. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I love painters because I don't paint, so I get to enjoy art; I like collecting paintings. "

" There's no judgment on bands that continue on who aren't popular; some people get enjoyment out of it. I'm just not one of those people. "

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

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

" 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'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. "

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

" 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. "