Fred Armisen

“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.”

“Missing something doesn't help anything. You can only look at the future, what you can keep doing.”

“When punk came along, it made perfect sense to me. I found it melodic. The Clash, Buzzcocks.”

“I think a comedian has a more specific job. Whereas a musician can fall into different categories, you know, of making background music or doing a soundtrack or wanting to be in a band or writing the song, or writing your own songs. And then comedy is a very black and white thing. You want to make people happy.”

“I can't be bothered with narrative. It takes too long for me to try to think of it.”

“I really like watching TV at home.”

“I think Ian MacKaye is everything that I always wanted to be.”

“Panned or not, 'Dune' is a real part of science-fiction filmmaking.”

“There's almost no such thing as a hipster.”

“I feel like Miami is way, way too hot.”

“No yoga. I can barely sit down.”

“I will always consider myself a punk because of those experiences in high school. It will always be a part of me.”

“I love my bandmates, and they're my friends, and even though we had fun and got to tour and I got to play the drums a lot, which I'll always appreciate, we had a really rough time. We toured and tried to get people to come to our shows and put out records, and we really struggled.”