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" There are so many little places I want to play, sometimes weird places I think would be fun to play... a bar that's half full. "
Julian Casablancas
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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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" No matter who I'm talking to, I always talk like I'm doing an interview. "
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" My parents separated when I was eight. I grew up with my mom alone. "
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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 always reference 'Mad Max' when I think about what I want to wear. But it's a fine line between that and 'Edward Scissorhands'. "
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" The best solutions are often simple, yet unexpected. "
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" It's not like I wake up and songs flow out of me. "
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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 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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" No one leaves an old friend unless they are ashamed. "
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" Making an album can be like being pregnant: you want to pop that thing out and show everybody! "
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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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" People are always arguing: New York or L.A.? They're both great places, you know. "
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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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" Working on music is the funnest thing for me, and I love it, and I could do it all day, all night. "
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Working
" It find it funny how people from Boston and New York hate each other because of pro teams. "
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Boston
" Can our mind evolve to be something other than an extension of our animal needs? "
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" I find it funny how people from Boston and New York hate each other because of pro teams. But, like, everyone on the Red Sox is a random millionaire athlete from somewhere else. "
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" I am a fan of 'SNL' and a big Jimmy Fallon fan, too. "
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" You know some of the people in The Strokes, yeah, their parents had success - but we didn't live like yuppies. "
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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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Night
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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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Big
People
" 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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" I'm happy to feed the illusion that I'm a lazy recluse. "
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Recluse
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" Birth is a beautiful thing. "
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Thing
Beautiful Thing
Birth
" Who you are vs. who you wish you were: Who wins? "
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" But it can be hard to experiment when you're in a band. "
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" That it's a lot harder to make a keyboard sound not-cheesy than a guitar. "
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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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" New York is in my soul. "
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