Seth Meyers he’s thankful he didn’t burn any bridges in his time Saturday Night Live.

In the middle NBC The 50th season of the sketch comedy show, the Late at night host reflected on some of the “embarrassingly petty” exchanges he had with fellow employees during his 2001-’14 run. SNL.

“I feel like I was a lot more temperamental when I was younger and things were going really fast SNL,” Meyers said on NPR Wild Card podcast. “And there were definitely times when my instinct was to say something that would have ended people’s relationship.”

He added: “You know, just arguing and, looking back, still embarrassingly petty, you know?”

Meyers credited friend and producer Mike Shoemakerwho worked with him on both SNL and Late at nightfor giving him some valuable advice when his instinct was to be confrontational.

“I remember saying once, ‘I’m going to say this and so it’s a you-know-what,'” he recalled. “And he always used to say, ‘It’s a long life. It’s a long life. And the people you work with here, what you go through with them, even for people who aren’t your favorite people, that’s a connection. And you will need these relationships for the rest of your life to remember what this time was like. And these people, more of them will be at your wedding than not.

“And so I’m very happy to have lived up to the saying ‘It’s a long life.’ Because if it’s someone you think could be your friend in the future, there’s no reason to burn them in the present,” said Meyers, who was lead writer on SNL from 2006 until his departure.

Meyers also admitted to being somewhat “greedy” of him SNL The co-stars, who had played roles in big films, remarking that “it wasted a lot of time and I submitted to a squeeze”.

“And then you make this mistake, you walk down a hallway and you see pictures of former cast members and you think that because you work at the same place they work, you’re going to have the same career, you know?” Meyers added. “But it’s a mistake to say just because you got hired at the same place as Adam Sandler and Will Ferrell, that doesn’t mean you’re going to have their career. And lots of different people with lots of different skill sets come through SNL. And so, you know, I’m very grateful that I had a patience with my time there that allowed me to find my fit.”