Julian Casablancas Quotes
Sometimes I've sat outside, not to tan, but as a result of that I ended up tanning slightly.
The best artists are the ones that work the hardest, and if you work hard enough, you'll eventually experience the happy accidents that are art.
I don't really care about clothes, but it's about wearing something that gives you social confidence.
Making an album can be like being pregnant: you want to pop that thing out and show everybody!
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.
A band is a great way to destroy a friendship, and a tour's a great way to destroy a band.
It find it funny how people from Boston and New York hate each other because of pro teams.
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.
It was 100,000 years before we figured out what to do with fire. Imagine cavemen, sitting in front of a fire, eating raw meat for 100 thousand years.
The problem with touring isn't the traveling and the shows, it's the vegetal state you get into.
I think a lot of people study the rules too much and then don't know how to be creative.
Boarding school didn't feel like my world, I felt like an alien; people there had a lot of money.
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.
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 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.
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.'
People are always arguing: New York or L.A.? They're both great places, you know.
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.
I'm really grateful. But I never had the rock star dream. I thought it would be cool to be a modern-day composer.
People often put me in a V-neck tennis club sweater, driving a Bentley, but my life wasn't like that.
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.
The British press can be so annoying. They jerk you off with one hand and smack you with the other.
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.
I feel slightly confused about certain things. Practical and tactical things. When you try to make everyone happy… in the end you've got to make yourself happy.
You know some of the people in The Strokes, yeah, their parents had success - but we didn't live like yuppies.
I'm not a pop song lyric writer. I can't just focus on one simple meaning or even a double entendre.
It's like an inner struggle for me, between saying I don't give a **** and trying to make it work. You want to do the right thing, but I'm sick of people thinking I'm difficult.
