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

Songwriting is hard - it's so easy to fall into the same traps. It's not like I wake up and songs flow out of me.

It was 100,000 years before we figured out what to do with fire. Imagine cavemen, sitting in front of a fire, eating raw meat for 100 thousand years.

A band is a great way to destroy a friendship, and a tour's a great way to destroy a band.

It's not like I wake up and songs flow out of me.

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

I have to say, I'm good with gifts. If I find something perfect for a certain person, I'll just get it and put it away in a kind of nook under my bed - a little gift hutch, if you prefer.