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.

"Macarena" is a great song. If music is something you can remember - the worst crime music can do is to be forgettable.

But I was beginning to feel like it all fit together, the same way everything in the bowl ends up in the bisquits, as Amma would say.

There's a time in your life when you have to stop looking back and start looking forward because otherwise you're going to walk down the road one day and bump into a lamppost. But it's not easy.

How disorienting and isolating immortality must be, and how strong he must be to weather it.

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way but must accept his lot calmly even if they roll a few more upon it.

The aim of being a good designer is to have an influence. If you design furniture or lifestyle, you should influence the way people evolve globally. It's good to have an influence.

We're failing our children with education, we're failing our environment.

Laugh till you weep. Weep till there's nothing left but to laugh at your weeping. In the end it's all one.

The ambiguous orientation of Japan drove the country into the position of an invader in Asia.

Truth is error burned up.

Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man