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

Julian Casablancas

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" Religion is never the problem; it's the people who use it to gain power. "

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

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

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

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" My parents separated when I was eight. I grew up with my mom alone. "

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" 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. "

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" Desire is individual. Happiness is common. "

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

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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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" 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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" Whenever I go to shows, I end up looking at what shoes the guy onstage is wearing and the jacket he's got on. And when you know everything's gonna be under scrutiny, it makes you feel more comfortable if you have cool stuff. "

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

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

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

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

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" Birth is a beautiful thing. "

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" With a hundred ways to do a dozen things, why not try it all? "

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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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" 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.' "

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" People are always arguing: New York or L.A.? They're both great places, you know. "

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

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

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

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" I over-think stuff a lot. "

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" 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. "

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

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