List of Julian Casablancas Quotes

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 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.

I Am A Fan Of 'snl' And A Big Jimmy Fallon Fan, Too.

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.

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.

But It Can Be Hard To Experiment When You're In A Band.

I Mean, I Guess You Could Say I'm A Bit Of A Perfectionist.

The Way Lou Reed Wrote And Sang About Drugs And Sex, About The People Around Him - It Was So Matter-of-fact.

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.

People Often Put Me In A V-neck Tennis Club Sweater, Driving A Bentley, But My Life Wasn't Like That.

It Find It Funny How People From Boston And New York Hate Each Other Because Of Pro Teams.

The Thing For Me Is I Never Had This Burning Desire To Do A Solo Record My Whole Life.

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.

The British Press Can Be So Annoying. They Jerk You Off With One Hand And Smack You With The Other.

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.'

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.

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.

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.