Fred Armisen

I will admit that I purposely stress myself out. But I think I like stressing myself out. There's a glamour to, like, 'I've got to get to the airport!' I just like the caricature. ”

When you're being mean to someone, you can feel the audience just get cold. ”

Ever since I was really little, I started doing a - I don't know how to put this - mentally challenged person on my street. I meant no harm by it, but I remembered how this person talked, and I did it for my mom, and she was not into it. She said, 'You can't do that!' But my dad really laughed. ”

I would see people on TV, or I'd see bands I really liked, and I thought, 'I want that.' ”

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 actually, legitimately feel that I'm not busy enough. I want to be so busy that it's overwhelming. ”

There are bands that I am friends with, who will invite me up on stage. Like Les Savy Fav, who have had me on stage, and I have played on their record. There are a couple of bands like that. Yo La Tengo has invited me to play with them. ”

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

Steve Jobs was a real rock star to me. I looked forward to his products like people look forward to albums. ”

Fereydun, that's my dad's name. My grandmother, my dad's mom, when she was pregnant, she was dating a man from Persia, a Persian gentleman. It wasn't his child, but he was still very supportive and said, 'Hey, this is a great name,' and so it stuck. So that's what she named him. ”