A biography for Fred Armisenhasn’t been written yet.
“My favorite song is 'Cybele's Reverie' by Stereolab.”
“All of my memories are now on hard drives. I'll change phones or I'll change my laptop, and all my photos stay.”
“I have the capability to have a close relationship with someone.”
“I'm so glad cities have personalities, just like people have personalities. That's something that makes me smile.”
“I get very, very little sleep.”
“I don't like watching shows where all of a sudden you're like, what happened? They shot the last season in Las Vegas?”
“Hopefully there will be a day when all comedy is all robots.”
“I learned at 'SNL' that it's a bummer to bum people out.”
“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.'”
“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.”
“For some reason, juggling things makes everything work better. That's just how we operate. It just makes the other project more of something to look forward to. I think the more you keep things going, the more it helps the other project.”
“My problem is with intimacy. That's where I have my biggest problems.”
“Every music journalist I've ever met has been stunningly beautiful.”
“I came away from 'Saturday Night Live' feeling very well represented. I felt, and I still feel like, they let me do so much stuff that I wanted to do. Stuff that I almost didn't even know what it was.”
“I travel a lot. I'll go back and forth, you know, West Coast-East Coast, but it's separated by segments. So it's not a daily thing.”
“I've met Tony Danza. He was really nice. And he looks... I feel like he hasn't aged. He looks exactly the same. He's just Tony Danza. He's exactly the same as he's always been.”
“I would never play a character that wasn't true. It's not a moral thing; it's just that it's more convincing if it's a little bit like me.”
“When you're being mean to someone, you can feel the audience just get cold.”
“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.”
“Art should not be an easy thing.”