Julian Casablancas

Making an album can be like being pregnant: you want to pop that thing out and show everybody!

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

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.

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.

I'm just going to try and be a good dad and not spoil the kid: give him love and encouragement but also discipline. Me and my woman, we don't want him to feel too entitled.

New York is in my soul.

Working on music is the funnest thing for me, and I love it, and I could do it all day, all night.

People often put me in a V-neck tennis club sweater, driving a Bentley, but my life wasn't like that.

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

I find it funny how people from Boston and New York hate each other because of pro teams. But, like, everyone on the Red Sox is a random millionaire athlete from somewhere else.

It find it funny how people from Boston and New York hate each other because of pro teams.

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