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

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 don’t shake at the site of alcohol anymore. I don’t feel the need for it. If anything I’ll get stoned. I always told myself if it got to the point that it was affecting my songwriting and music that I’d stop. And it did get to the point.

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

Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer.

I over-think stuff a lot.

If it doesn't start with you, it dies with you.