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" 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? "

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" 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. "

Fred Armisen

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

" I tend to think that there is a sophistication to everything at 'Saturday Night Live,' including the sketches. "

" Art should not be an easy thing. "

" 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. "

" I actually, legitimately feel that I'm not busy enough. I want to be so busy that it's overwhelming. "

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

Fred Armisen

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Impression

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My favorite song is 'Cybele's Reverie' by Stereolab. "

" Wayne Coyne has put out Flaming Lips records in gummy bear skulls and all these different kinds of packaging that's really, really inventive. And that's what you should always do. "

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

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

" For some reason, juggling things makes everything work better. That's just how we operate. It just makes the other project more of something to look forward to. I think the more you keep things going, the more it helps the other project. "

" I love driving. Listen to some music. "

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

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

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

Fred Armisen

School

Myself

" I get very, very little sleep. "

" People on the street comment on how handsome I am. You know, people stop and say how angular my face is. "

" 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'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. "

" I would see people on TV, or I'd see bands I really liked, and I thought, 'I want that.' "

Fred Armisen

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" 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. "

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

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

" 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 find it weird to use my own voice on TV. "

" 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. "