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

- Fred Armisen

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

- Fred Armisen

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…

- Fred Armisen

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.

- Fred Armisen

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

- Fred Armisen

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.

- Fred Armisen

Sometimes I think I'm a really interesting guy.

- Fred Armisen

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 …

- Fred Armisen

[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…

- Fred Armisen