Julian Casablancas

Desire is individual. Happiness is common.

— Julian Casablancas

Just slow it down enough to enjoy the ride.

— Julian Casablancas

I live on the frozen surface of a fireball

— Julian Casablancas

America, nothing is ever just anything

— Julian Casablancas

I got a mind full of blanks

— Julian Casablancas

That is how it once was done

— Julian Casablancas

Birth is a beautiful thing.

— Julian Casablancas

All the dreamers on the run

— Julian Casablancas

While it hears you, trapped in another dimension

— Julian Casablancas

The best solutions are often simple, yet unexpected.

— Julian Casablancas

How long must we wait, how long must this take?

— Julian Casablancas

Oh I got music, coming outta my hands and feet and kisses

— Julian Casablancas

We're so quick to point out our own flaws in others.

— Julian Casablancas

Who you are vs. who you wish you were: Who wins?

— Julian Casablancas

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

— Julian Casablancas

With a hundred ways to do a dozen things, why not try it all?

— Julian Casablancas

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…

— Julian Casablancas

A tour is the most intense, stimulating way to hear music; it's the best form to receive it. There's genuine excitement from…

— Julian Casablancas

I think I used to do everything and then people had a problem with that within the band, so we're doing more…

— Julian Casablancas

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

— Julian Casablancas

When I hear Sam Cooke's 'A Change Is Gonna Come', it frustrates me because no matter how hard I try, I can…

— Julian Casablancas

The best artists are the ones that work the hardest, and if you work hard enough, you'll eventually experience the happy accidents…

— Julian Casablancas

The artistic element of Manhattan has kind of moved to Brooklyn. Has it changed it? Yeah. Has it ruined it? I would…

— Julian Casablancas

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…

— Julian Casablancas

Now, the good of business is put above anything else, as corporations have become the new ruling body. Most decisions seem to…

— Julian Casablancas

I kinda like messing with perception a little bit. Kind of what drugs do sometimes, and drinking. I mean, you know, you…

— Julian Casablancas

If the choice is between doing something supercool and having no one hear it and doing something equally cool and tricking people…

— Julian Casablancas

I would prefer it if people thought that I didn't work hard, that I just played the guitar for three minutes a…

— Julian Casablancas

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…

— Julian Casablancas

It's that feeling when you hear your favourite song. That feeling, whether you're in a car, at a party or alone at…

— Julian Casablancas

When the Strokes first started playing gigs, instead of getting into a costume for the shows, we talked about how we should…

— Julian Casablancas

Pretty much the only goal I've had since the beginning, which I still have, is just to get better, work hard, focus,…

— Julian Casablancas

No one really cares or wanders why anymore

— Julian Casablancas

You hear, what you want to hear

— Julian Casablancas

I need to go somewhere new fast

— Julian Casablancas

It's not gonna take all day long

— Julian Casablancas

They take what they want to take

— Julian Casablancas

I'm on my way on somewhere

— Julian Casablancas

I over-think stuff a lot.

— Julian Casablancas

Don't be shy, oh no, at least deliberately

— Julian Casablancas