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

I enjoy songwriting. It's slow-motion improvising.

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.

I'm really grateful. But I never had the rock star dream. I thought it would be cool to be a modern-day composer.

You know some of the people in The Strokes, yeah, their parents had success - but we didn't live like yuppies.

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.

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