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" Making an album can be like being pregnant: you want to pop that thing out and show everybody! "
Julian Casablancas
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" Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer. "
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" My parents separated when I was eight. I grew up with my mom alone. "
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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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" Compared to people in Africa, I think we've all had privileged upbringings. "
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" No matter who I'm talking to, I always talk like I'm doing an interview. "
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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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" But it can be hard to experiment when you're in a band. "
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" If it doesn't start with you, it dies with you. "
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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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" 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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" Birth is a beautiful thing. "
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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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" 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 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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" Religion is never the problem; it's the people who use it to gain power. "
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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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" New York is in my soul. "
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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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" 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 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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" I always want to make Strokes records and play Strokes shows. "
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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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" 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. "
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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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