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

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

— Julian Casablancas

Watching the urban decay all around us, oh boy

— Julian Casablancas

I over-think stuff a lot.

— Julian Casablancas

I see myself out of my own eyes, which means I have no idea what's going on the other way around. I…

— Julian Casablancas

It's like an inner struggle for me, between saying I don't give a **** and trying to make it work. You want…

— Julian Casablancas

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

— Julian Casablancas

You are looking for your own voice, but in others

— Julian Casablancas

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

— 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

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

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

— Julian Casablancas

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

— Julian Casablancas

I'm just going to try and be a good dad and not spoil the kid: give him love and encouragement but also…

— Julian Casablancas

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

— Julian Casablancas

I want to be one of those people, be they writers, poets, musicians, who leaves clues for the next generation. The really…

— Julian Casablancas

It's not gonna take all day long

— 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

I always reference 'Mad Max' when I think about what I want to wear. But it's a fine line between that and…

— Julian Casablancas

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

— Julian Casablancas

The way Lou Reed wrote and sang about drugs and sex, about the people around him — it was so matter-of-fact,

— 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

There are so many little places I want to play, sometimes weird places I think would be fun to play... a bar…

— Julian Casablancas

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

— Julian Casablancas

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

— Julian Casablancas