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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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" Birth is a beautiful thing. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Desire is individual. Happiness is common. "

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

" 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. "

" It's not like I wake up and songs flow out of me. "

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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. "

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

" No one leaves an old friend unless they are ashamed. "

" 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. "

" I think a lot of people study the rules too much and then don't know how to be creative. "

" That it's a lot harder to make a keyboard sound not-cheesy than a guitar. "

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

" New York is in my soul. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I very often have night terrors. Just think of the worst possible situation, and it's a regular thing for me. I've died in my sleep twenty-three different ways. "

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

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