Zitat des Tages von Fred Armisen:
I am immediately disinterested when I hear mountain-climbing stories.
I wanted so badly to be in a famous band, and it was not happening. I played drums with different bands and with the Blue Man Group in Chicago, but I definitely felt like, 'Wow, I did not picture my life being like this.'
Wayne Coyne has put out Flaming Lips records in gummy bear skulls and all these different kinds of packaging that's really, really inventive. And that's what you should always do.
Sometimes 'Portlandia' can be pretty traditional. But the stuff I've always loved on 'SNL' has always been the weirdest stuff I've done. The stuff that went on at 10 to 1 in the morning.
I like to think Portland and L.A. are not rivals; they're cousins. As cities on the West Coast, they're distinct in their own way but still culturally similar.
I think Ian MacKaye is everything that I always wanted to be.
I have a problem with sweets. I have an inability to eat a just little bit. It's almost like I can't even enjoy chocolate anymore - I have to stuff it into my brain, cram it into my ears.
I feel bad for everyone I've gone out with.
Prince is my favorite ever. I've liked Prince since... It's been a really long time. Even in junior high. I used to only like punk for a while, and I had all these rules for what kinds of groups were cool, and who was not cool, but as soon as I saw this one Prince video... It just broke all those rules. I was like, 'I love this no matter what.'
Art should not be an easy thing.
I really like watching TV at home.
Surround yourself with people you like and respect; surround yourself with people you just want to be around and keep making things.
I am opposed to vacations and leisure. I try to make every day a work day. Even if there's nothing on my schedule, I will try do at least one task that is work-related.
If something seems like a little venue, don't treat it like that. Do it all. If you're sort of wondering why you're doing something at some location, just do it - any size theater, production, or whatever. It's all helpful.
I was really close to being this guy who used to be in this band who is still playing and trying to get some recordings together, but I got really lucky.
I spent most of my 20s playing music. I was in a band, and we worked really hard and did not get very far.
The bands that were big in '77, like the Clash and the Sex Pistols and Talking Heads, I got into them in the early '80s. And it changed my life. It got into my DNA.
I believe in limitations. I think the worst art ever made - in my opinion, because it's all so subjective - is where the artist had complete freedom.
I find it weird to use my own voice on TV.
Every day, I wanna work on being a better person, not just to others but to myself.
Everyone knows deep in their hearts that the drums are the coolest instrument, and that a band is only as good as its drummer. So I'm all for drum solos. I'm all for drummers hamming it up. I'm all for drummers standing up and kicking over the kit.
I would see people on TV, or I'd see bands I really liked, and I thought, 'I want that.'
I love painters because I don't paint, so I get to enjoy art; I like collecting paintings.
I'm obsessed with my 20s. I buy things that I wanted in my 20s. It's weird; it's a weird thing that I didn't grow out of.
Steve Jobs was a real rock star to me. I looked forward to his products like people look forward to albums.
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 love 'Saturday Night Live,' and I really feel like people who have left before me have always stayed with the show. They never really quite left, which is nice. Everyone kind of stays close.
When I'm hungry, I need to eat right away.
We almost called the 'Portlandia' show 'Stumptown.' That was the original name.
That's one of the great things about Los Angeles, that people just play music, and it's all very welcoming and welcomed.
There's almost no such thing as a hipster.
I would really like to do a movie. Schedule-wise I don't know when exactly, but I think it would be great to do a Portlandia movie. Some of my favorite television shows have done it and they've been great. Like Monty Python. I think it would be great.
I work better when I'm juggling projects. Nothing worse than watching someone really embrace what they're doing if they love it too much.
Questlove redefined what a band can be, and Paul Shaffer and Max Weinberg really put their own spin on it. I bow down to these people. All of them.
There should be comedians who perform only for robots - I'm saying human comedians that only perform for robots.
Bill Hader does a really good impression of me.