I loooved Sleater-Kinney like a crazy person..

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

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….

Portland is where young people go to retire..

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. ….

There are so many disagreements in the world, but I like the idea of people agreeing on something like art..

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….

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

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

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….

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. I wanted att….

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 spent most of my 20s playing music. I was in a band and we worked really hard and did not get very far. I was really close to being this guy who us….

If there is a blues song, it just goes in one ear and out the other. But other than that, if it stays with you and when we are all 90, we're going to….

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….

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..

[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 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….

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 ….

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

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