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Julian Casablancas

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    Art is the image of life, it's purpose simply to enhance it.

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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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    Birth is a beautiful thing.

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

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

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

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    Desire is individual. Happiness is common.

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    Doing heroin is like walking around with a terrorist as your friend. It's like taking a terrorist around to parties You never know when it's going to blow up on you.

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    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.

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    Forgive them even if they are not sorry

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    Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer.

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

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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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    I don’t shake at the site of alcohol anymore. I don’t feel the need for it. If anything I’ll get stoned. I always told myself if it got to the point that it was affecting my songwriting and music that I’d stop. And it did get to the point.

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    I enjoy songwriting. It's slow-motion improvising.

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    I feel like I've given up a lot of my fantasies. I just want to do things differently, and to a lot of people that's annoying. I like weird stuff. I always hoped if we had a big success it would be on our own terms.

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    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.

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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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    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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    I guess the best thing about marriage is the fact you've got the coolest partner you can imagine by your side for all the things you're going to face in your life. So far, Juliet's been there for me. She's been good for my voice, good for my everything.

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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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    I kinda like messing with perception a little bit. Kind of what drugs do sometimes, and drinking. I mean, you know, you mess with your mind a little bit to see life from different angles. Within reason, if you can handle it.

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    I'm happy to feed the illusion that I'm a lazy recluse.

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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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    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'm really grateful. But I never had the rock star dream. I thought it would be cool to be a modern-day composer.

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    In L.A., it's so sunny out all the time that even though I'm working all day I have this illusion that I'm on some kind of vacation. New York is so condensed and exciting but you stay there too long and all that turns into anxiety a little bit. It's nice to escape here and there.

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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 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.

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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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    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 think a lot of people study the rules too much and then don't know how to be creative.

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    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.

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    It's not like I wake up and songs flow out of me.

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    It's that feeling when you hear your favourite song. That feeling, whether you're in a car, at a party or alone at home or in bed and you hear this song and it just hits you so strong - that’s what we aim for.

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    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.

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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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    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.

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    Kids are always honest, 'cause they don't think they're ever going to die.

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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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    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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    Making an album can be like being pregnant: you want to pop that thing out and show everybody!

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

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    No matter who I'm talking to, I always talk like I'm doing an interview.

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    No one leaves an old friend unless they are ashamed.

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    Now, the good of business is put above anything else, as corporations have become the new ruling body. Most decisions seem to be made like ones of a medieval king: whatever makes profit while ignoring and repressing the truth about whatever suffering it may cause (like pop music, for that matter).

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

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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.