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

We're so quick to point out our own flaws in others.

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

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.

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

The best artists are the ones that work the hardest, and if you work hard enough, you'll eventually experience the happy accidents that are art.

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