Julian Casablancas

I enjoy songwriting. It's slow-motion improvising.

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I find it funny how people from Boston and New York hate each other because of pro teams. But, like, everyone on the Red Sox is a random millionaire athlete from somewhere else.

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I'm just going to try and be a good dad and not spoil the kid: give him love and encouragement but also discipline. Me and my woman, we don't want him to feel too entitled.

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A tour is the most intense, stimulating way to hear music; it's the best form to receive it. There's genuine excitement from people. I feel like we've stepped up a level.

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You know some of the people in The Strokes, yeah, their parents had success - but we didn't live like yuppies.

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When the Strokes first started playing gigs, instead of getting into a costume for the shows, we talked about how we should dress every day, in real life, like we're playing onstage. I don't really care about clothes, but it's about wearing something that gives you social confidence. Or maybe helps you pick up chicks.

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I always want to make Strokes records and play Strokes shows.

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For a long time I didn't want to do a solo thing, but there comes a point where everyone else is going outside of The Strokes and The Strokes filtering process.

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The Strokes can play anything. They could play 'Thriller,' and it would just sound like 'Thriller' as played by the Strokes.

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I'm always writing something. I've got so much stuff, I don't know what to do with it. Some of it will be Strokes, some of it will be I don't know what - stuff for pop singers. TV themes. I've got a jar stuffed with songs, all these ideas that are just me humming into a recording device.

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People often put me in a V-neck tennis club sweater, driving a Bentley, but my life wasn't like that.

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Songwriting is hard - it's so easy to fall into the same traps. It's not like I wake up and songs flow out of me.

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The best solutions are often simple, yet unexpected.

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L.A. is a vortex. The weather there tricks you into thinking you're on vacation, even when you're working fourteen hours a day.

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The artistic element of Manhattan has kind of moved to Brooklyn. Has it changed it? Yeah. Has it ruined it? I would say no. It is what it is. I say better that than an urban war zone.

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Who you are vs. who you wish you were: Who wins?

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Quotes by Julian Casablancas