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" 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'. "

Julian Casablancas

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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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" Desire is individual. Happiness is common. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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" 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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" The best solutions are often simple, yet unexpected. "

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

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

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" Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense. "

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" The problem with touring isn't the traveling and the shows, it's the vegetal state you get into. "

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" The thing for me is I never had this burning desire to do a solo record my whole life. "

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

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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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