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

No matter who I'm talking to, I always talk like I'm doing an interview.

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

I'm just going to try and be a good dad and not spoil the kid: give him love and encouragement but also discipline. Me and my woman, we don't want him to feel too entitled.

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

In L.A., it's so sunny out all the time that even though I'm working all day I have this illusion that I'm on some kind of vacation. New York is so condensed and exciting but you stay there too long and all that turns into anxiety a little bit. It's nice to escape here and there.

People often put me in a V-neck tennis club sweater, driving a Bentley, but my life wasn't like that.