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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. "

Julian Casablancas

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

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

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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 over-think stuff a lot. "

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" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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" I have to say, I'm good with gifts. If I find something perfect for a certain person, I'll just get it and put it away in a kind of nook under my bed - a little gift hutch, if you prefer. "

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

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

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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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" 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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