Julian Casablancas Quotes

I want to be one of those people, be they writers, poets, musicians, who leaves clues for the next generation. The really good people leave clues that help feed the human race. That's my aspiration.

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

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

Birth is a beautiful thing.

Working on music is the funnest thing for me, and I love it, and I could do it all day, all night.

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

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

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.

For a long time I didn't want to do a solo thing, but there comes a point where everyone else is going outside of The Strokes and The Strokes filtering process.

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

That it's a lot harder to make a keyboard sound not-cheesy than a guitar.

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.

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'.

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.

When I hear Sam Cooke's 'A Change Is Gonna Come', it frustrates me because no matter how hard I try, I can never be that good.

I mean, I guess you could say I'm a bit of a perfectionist.

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

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.

I'd like to just get to a point where maybe we can say something that will be matterful. That's definitely not a word, by the way.

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

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.

The only goal right now that I can have, the only thing I can offer right now, is the need to get good at music, do something with quality.

Can our mind evolve to be something other than an extension of our animal needs?

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.

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