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

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

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.

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 over-think stuff a lot.

There are so many little places I want to play, sometimes weird places I think would be fun to play... a bar that's half full.

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.