Julian Casablancas

They take what they want to take

— Julian Casablancas

The best solutions are often simple, yet unexpected.

— Julian Casablancas

While it hears you, trapped in another dimension

— Julian Casablancas

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

— Julian Casablancas

No one leaves an old friend unless they are ashamed.

— Julian Casablancas

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

— Julian Casablancas

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

— Julian Casablancas

I just nod, I've never been so good at shaking hands

— Julian Casablancas

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

— 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 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

The British press can be so annoying. They jerk you off with one hand and smack you with the other.

— Julian Casablancas

I'm not a pop song lyric writer. I can't just focus on one simple meaning or even a double entendre.

— Julian Casablancas

You know some of the people in The Strokes, yeah, their parents had success - but we didn't live like yuppies.

— Julian Casablancas

The only goal right now that I can have, the only thing I can offer right now, is the need to get…

— Julian Casablancas

Boarding school didn't feel like my world, I felt like an alien; people there had a lot of money.

— Julian Casablancas

I don't really care about clothes, but it's about wearing something that gives you social confidence.

— 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

Whenever I go to shows, I end up looking at what shoes the guy onstage is wearing and the jacket he's got…

— 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

I guess the best thing about marriage is the fact you've got the coolest partner you can imagine by your side for…

— Julian Casablancas

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…

— Julian Casablancas

I'm always writing something. I've got so much stuff, I don't know what to do with it. Some of it will be…

— Julian Casablancas

I feel like I've given up a lot of my fantasies. I just want to do things differently, and to a lot…

— Julian Casablancas

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

— Julian Casablancas

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

— Julian Casablancas

All the vultures, bootleggers at the door waiting

— Julian Casablancas

Some will love you like an unloved child loves family traditions

— Julian Casablancas

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

— Julian Casablancas

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

— Julian Casablancas

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

— Julian Casablancas

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

— Julian Casablancas

I looked up to you but you thought I would look the other way

— Julian Casablancas

If it doesn't start with you, it dies with you.

— Julian Casablancas

So when's it coming? This life's new great movement that I can join

— Julian Casablancas

Don't you dare get to the top and not know what to do.

— Julian Casablancas

Drop your guard, you don't have to be smart all of the time

— Julian Casablancas

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

— Julian Casablancas

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

— Julian Casablancas

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

— Julian Casablancas