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

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

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.

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.

Portland is where young people go to retire.

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

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

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

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

"Macarena" is a great song. If music is something you can remember - the worst crime music can do is to be forgettable.

There is No Greater Satisfaction God greater then mother.

I listened to many different types of instruments and music, and have always tried to look at the bass as an instrument as opposed to only a bass.

My life is PG-13 sometimes, and I really want Josh Grogan to propose to me, and he just won't do it.

What’s the ONE Thing you can do such that by doing it everything else will be easier or unnecessary?

There is no such thing as high returns without risk.

There is every reason to believe that our system will soon attain the highest degree of perfection of which human institutions are capable.

The radiance in some places is so great as to be fairly dazzling... every crystal, every flower a window opening into heaven, a mirror reflecting the Creator.

I know that people's judgments are fast, and in a split second I will ruin it.

While the Nation has forbidden monopoly by one set of laws it has been creating them by another. Patent laws, valuable as they may be in some respects, often father monopoly.

After all, what is a lovely phrase? One that has mopped up as much Truth as it can hold.