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All Quotes by author - Julian Casablancas

" A band is a good way to break up a friendship. "

" 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. "

" Birth is a beautiful thing. "

Beautiful Thing

" Boarding school didn't feel like my world, I felt like an alien; people there had a lot of money. "

" But it can be hard to experiment when you're in a band. "

" Can our mind evolve to be something other than an extension of our animal needs? "

" Compared to people in Africa, I think we've all had privileged upbringings. "

" Desire is individual. Happiness is common. "

" 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. "

" Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer. "

" I always reference 'Mad Max' when I think about what I want to wear. But it's a fine line between that and 'Edward Scissorhands'. "

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

" I am a fan of 'SNL' and a big Jimmy Fallon fan, too. "

" I don't really care about clothes, but it's about wearing something that gives you social confidence. "

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

" 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. "

" If it doesn't start with you, it dies with you. "

" If the choice is between doing something supercool and having no one hear it and doing something equally cool and tricking people into putting it on the radio, I don't think the second option is some big sellout. "

" If you're in a bar and a certain song comes on and the vibe is just different, it evokes the kinds of things that you want to feel, and if music can do that it's a very special thing. "

" I have to say, I'm good with gifts. If I find something perfect for a certain person, I'll just get it and put it away in a kind of nook under my bed - a little gift hutch, if you prefer. "

" 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. "

" I mean, I guess you could say I'm a bit of a perfectionist. "

" I'm happy to feed the illusion that I'm a lazy recluse. "

" 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. "

" I'm not a pop song lyric writer. I can't just focus on one simple meaning or even a double entendre. "

" In most cultures, you can have a kid at 18 and it's not a big thing. It's not like, 'Oh, you've got to get a different haircut and move to the suburbs and act, like, 35.' "

" I over-think stuff a lot. "

" I see myself out of my own eyes, which means I have no idea what's going on the other way around. I just think I try to be a good person - and I fail. "

" It find it funny how people from Boston and New York hate each other because of pro teams. "

" I think all of Manhattan has pretty much become a bar-slash-nightclub-slash-restaurant. There were always pockets of that. But now every corner of Manhattan is that. "

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