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.

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.

When the Strokes first started playing gigs, instead of getting into a costume for the shows, we talked about how we should dress every day, in real life, like we're playing onstage. I don't really care about clothes, but it's about wearing something that gives you social confidence. Or maybe helps you pick up chicks.

Make sure your heart is singing right until the day it stops.

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.

Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.

I don't really care about clothes, but it's about wearing something that gives you social confidence.