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

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

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

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

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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. "

" 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. "

" Desire is individual. Happiness is common. "

" 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'. "

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

" New York is in my soul. "

" The Strokes can play anything. They could play 'Thriller,' and it would just sound like 'Thriller' as played by the Strokes. "

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

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

" No matter who I'm talking to, I always talk like I'm doing an interview. "

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

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

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

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" I would prefer it if people thought that I didn't work hard, that I just played the guitar for three minutes a week and was like, 'Check out this song - what do you think?' That would be ideal. I would prefer telling people that I'm just truly talented. "