Julian Casablancas

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

Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer.

L.A. is a vortex. The weather there tricks you into thinking you're on vacation, even when you're working fourteen hours a day.

Desire is individual. Happiness is common.

Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.

When the Strokes first started playing gigs, instead of getting into a costume for the shows, we talked about how we should dress every day, in real life, like we're playing onstage. I don't really care about clothes, but it's about wearing something that gives you social confidence. Or maybe helps you pick up chicks.

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

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

When you first start writing a song, it's fun, then when you start recording it, it's fun, but by the time you've finished recording it, you're sick of it.

For a long time I didn't want to do a solo thing, but there comes a point where everyone else is going outside of The Strokes and The Strokes filtering process.

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

The artistic element of Manhattan has kind of moved to Brooklyn. Has it changed it? Yeah. Has it ruined it? I would say no. It is what it is. I say better that than an urban war zone.