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" Birth is a beautiful thing. "
Julian Casablancas
Thing
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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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" A band is a good way to break up a friendship. "
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" When you first start writing a song, it's fun, then when you start recording it, it's fun, but by the time you've finished recording it, you're sick of it. "
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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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" Making an album can be like being pregnant: you want to pop that thing out and show everybody! "
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" There are so many little places I want to play, sometimes weird places I think would be fun to play... a bar that's half full. "
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" I mean, I guess you could say I'm a bit of a perfectionist. "
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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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" I think I used to do everything and then people had a problem with that within the band, so we're doing more of a communal thing. "
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" I am a fan of 'SNL' and a big Jimmy Fallon fan, too. "
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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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" With a hundred ways to do a dozen things, why not try it all? "
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" Religion is never the problem; it's the people who use it to gain power. "
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" People are always arguing: New York or L.A.? They're both great places, you know. "
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" I enjoy songwriting. It's slow-motion improvising. "
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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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" 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. "
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" One of the big songwriting things for me has always been: always think what you do sucks. Because the second you stop believing that, you suck. And that's a fact. "
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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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" 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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" If it doesn't start with you, it dies with you. "
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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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" No one leaves an old friend unless they are ashamed. "
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" I think a lot of people study the rules too much and then don't know how to be creative. "
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" Desire is individual. Happiness is common. "
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" 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. "
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" L.A.'s kind of, like, seven really cool towns. It's so laid-back. If you go in the right spot, you can walk around, and you don't need a car. "
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