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.

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.

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 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.

Comedy writers don't join fraternities.''Don't pigeon hole me, Georgie, I'm infinite.

Madam de Stael pronounced architecture to be frozen music so is statuary crystalized spirituality.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.

The framers of the Constitution realized that . . . there needed to be some guardian of the sober second thought, and so they created the Senate to fulfill that high and vitally important duty.

Open source isn't about saving money, it's about doing more stuff, and getting incremental innovation with the finite budget you have.

But whether thus submissively or not, at least be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.

The supply of leaks is very large. It's helpful for us to have more people in this industry. It's protective to us.

I want you to be with someone who really, really loves you. A wild love! A crazy love! I want yours to be the greatest love story of all time!

We ought to think that we are one of the leaves of a tree, and the tree is all humanity. We cannot live without the others, without the tree.