There's something that I can't describe about the city [Portland] that I really love - just physically - how it feels to walk around there, and have ….

I don't know any artists or painters, like, "Oh that painting group." I want to write down this idea of a group of artists who treat it like a band. ….

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

My father came from Germany. My mom came from Venezuela. My father's culturally German, but his father was Japanese..

Remember that there's no one way of doing things. ... If you just get a hammer and hit it really hard, whatever it is, I guarantee you it'll open..

Sometimes I think I'm a really interesting guy..

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 loved our music discussion. I live for discussions like that. It's my favorite thing because it means that people care about music, and actually ha….

[Paul McCartney] never, at the time, was going back to leaning back on the roots of his old band. He always built upon where he was, which was in Lon….

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

Portland is where young people go to retire..

I loooved Sleater-Kinney like a crazy person..

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….

It's already years ago now, but there's that South Korean music artist Psy, who had that hit song and it was a hit song here. I'm like, "Wait a minut….

Everyone goes through all kinds of relationship situations. I'm lucky that I get to be on two comedy shows [during divorce]..

If someone can write great music... Paul McCartney is a genius. He's so prolific. All we should do is bow down to Paul McCartney..

I don't miss anything ever. Because to me, missing something is like going backward a little bit. I don't miss being in a punk band. For me, 'SNL' is….

Avoid people who tell you that something you want to do is not possible..

Some rules are good. For example, off the top of my head, let's say a stand-up comedian or a talk show host wearing a nice suit - as a ponderer, I gr….

I was in a band and it wasn't working out the way I wanted. Then somehow, little by little, I started doing a couple comedy things. All of a sudden I….

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