L.A.'s kind of, like, seven really cool towns. It's so laid-back. If you go in the right spot, you can walk around, and you don't need a car.

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

My parents separated when I was eight. I grew up with my mom alone.

I'm not a pop song lyric writer. I can't just focus on one simple meaning or even a double entendre.

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 way Lou Reed wrote and sang about drugs and sex, about the people around him - it was so matter-of-fact.

I am a fan of 'SNL' and a big Jimmy Fallon fan, too.