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.

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.

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

Pretty much the only goal I've had since the beginning, which I still have, is just to get better, work hard, focus, and everything else will just be a bonus. As long as I'm satisfied, and I think we're getting better with every song compared to the last, then I'm satisfied and that's all I want. If we don't achieve that, then I'll be disappointed.

Who you are vs. who you wish you were: Who wins?

The only goal right now that I can have, the only thing I can offer right now, is the need to get good at music, do something with quality.