Julian Casablancas

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

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.

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.

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.

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.'

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.

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

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

One of the big songwriting things for me has always been: always think what you do sucks. Because the second you stop believing that, you suck. And that's a fact.

Sometimes I've sat outside, not to tan, but as a result of that I ended up tanning slightly.

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

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.